''A Feast in Time of Plague'' (russian: «Пир во время чумы», Pir vo vremya chumy) is an 1830 play by
Aleksandr Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast "And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!". The story is based on 4th scene of Act 1 of
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's play "The City of Plague" (1816).
The play was written in 1830 and published in 1832 as one of four ''Little Tragedies'' (Malenkie tragedii, russian: Маленькие трагедии) together with
''The Stone Guest'' (Kamenny gost', russian: Каменный гость);
''Mozart and Salieri'' (Motsart i Salyeri, russian: Моцарт и Сальери) and
''The Miserly Knight'' (Skupoy rytsar, russian: Скупой рыцарь). All four of these plays were set as one act operas by Russian composers; Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, and for the ''Feast'',
César Cui
César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...
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References
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1830 plays
Plays by Aleksandr Pushkin
Plays adapted into operas
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