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The central incident of "The Bronze Horseman" is the flood which struck St. Petersburg in November of 1824. In the preface to the poem, Pushkin writes that he consulted materials for the information of the flood. The preface is as follows: "The incident described in this story is based on the truth. The details of the flood are taken from magazines published in those days. Curious people may refer to the account composed by V. N. Berkh." (The italics are Pushkin's.) The account composed by V. N. Berkh." means "A Detailed Historical Account of all the Floods that occurred in St. Petersburg" written by Berkh in 1826. In this account, the author reproduced F. V. Bulgarin's "The Letter to a Friend on the Flood Occurred in St. Petersburg on the 7th of November in 1824". Therefore, "the account composed by V. N. Berkh" is nothing but Bulgarin's report on the flood of 1824. It is common knowledge that Bulgarin who published the conservative official paper "The Northem Bee" was Pushkin's enemy in the literary world. About 1830, "The Literary Paper" edited by Pushkin and Del'vig often disputed "The Northern Bee". Why does Pushkin mention, though indirectly, his enemy's report in the preface to his valuable work? In the present paper, I will argue that in the brief preface to the poem "The Bronze Horseman" Pushkin hints that Bulgarin once plagiarized Pushkin's work and in this covert manner satirizes his enemy.
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