The Poet and the Tsar

The Poet and the Tsar
File:The Poet and the Tsar.jpg
Directed by	Vladimir Gardin Yevgeni Chervyakov
Written by	Vladimir Gardin Yevgeni Chervyakov
Cinematography	Naum Aptekman Svyatoslav Belyayev
Production company	Sovkino
Release date	1927 (1927)
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent Russian intertitles

The Poet and the Tsar (Russian: Поэт и царь, romanized: Poet i tsar) is a 1927 Soviet silent biopic film directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yevgeni Chervyakov.

Plot

Tsar Nikolai I is infatuated with Natalia Goncharova, wife of Alexander Pushkin. Trying to hide his passion, the tsar helps Natalia get closer with officer d'Anthès. The whole royal court gossips about the relationship of Natalia with d'Anthès. These rumors reach Pushkin and he challenges d'Anthès to a duel ...

Cast

• Yevgeni Chervyakov as Alexander Pushkin
• Irina Volodko as Natalie Pushkina
• Konstantin Karenin as Nicholas I of Russia
• Boris Tumarin as Baron d'Anthès
• Leonid Tkachov as Pyotr Vyazemsky
• Yevgenia Rosiner as Aleksandra, Nathalie's sister
• Aleksei Feona as Vasily Zhukovsky
• Ivan Lerskiy as Faddey Bulgarin
• Aleksandr Larikov as Nikita
• Olga Spirova as Yekaterina, Nathalie's sister
• Ivan Khudoleyev as Baron Alexander von Benckendorff
• Zoya Valevskaya as Idalia Poletika
• Anatoli Nelidov as Ivan Krylov
• Fyodor Lopukhov as Nikolai Gogol
• Gennadiy Michurin as Konstantin Danzas
• Yevgeni Boronikhin as Vladimir Dahl
• Nikolai Cherkasov as Charles, the barber
• Valeri Plotnikov as Baron de Heeckeren
• Mariya Dobrova as Alexandra Smirnova
• Pyotr Podvalny as viscount d'Archiac
• Yevgeniya Rogulina

Bibliography

• Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links

• The Poet and the Tsar at IMDb