"Poltava" - a poem by the Russian genius poet, "the sun of Russian poetry", playwright and prose writer A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). There are two lines in it: love (Mazepa - Maria) and historical (Peter - Mazepa - Charles XII). Personality The author was very interested in Mazepa. He even wanted to name the poem after him. But the main theme for Pushkin still remained the theme of the Russian victo...