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"Dubrovsky" is the most famous robber novel in Russian, an unprocessed (and unfinished) work by A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). It tells the story of Vladimir Dubrovsky's love for Maria Troekurova, descendants of two warring landowner families. It is believed that the idea for the novel came to the poet after his friend Pavel Nashchokin told him the story of a certain landowner Ostrovsky. This landowner was ruined by his noble neighbor, lost his estate and, having gathered a gang of his own peasants, resorted to robbery after being deprived of his estate as a result of litigation. The main theme of "Dubrovsky" is the theme of social justice and moral responsibility. Pushkin also wrote such wonderful works as "The Scenes from Knightly Times", "Tales of Belkin", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Eugene Onegin", "Song of the Prophetic Oleg", "Roslavlev", "Notes of Brigadier Moreau de Braze" , "The History of Peter", "Caucasian captive", "The Mermaid". During his lifetime, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin earned himself a reputation as the greatest poet of Russia, whose work influenced the development of both Russian and and world literature. The greatest merit of the brilliant poet is also that he became the creator of the modern Russian literary language.