The article is devoted to the image of Pugachev in the novel "The Captain's Daughter". The author proposes to take into account the best examples of Russian comic opera of the 18th century when studying the creative history of the novel and the genesis of the image of the peasant leader. The connection between the poetics of the novel and the most important artistic devices of the Russian comic opera of the late 18th century is proved: the use of folklore, the alternation of individual and choral scenes, the speech individualization of characters on the basis of colloquial language. The artistic regularity of Pushkin's appeal to drama and, first of all, to the genre of comic opera in the process of working on a historical novel is substantiated. Facts are cited that testify to Pushkin's steady interest in A.A. Ablesimov's opera "The Miller - Sorcerer, Deceiver and Matchmaker" and the popularity of this work among Russian writers of Pushkin's time. For the first time, the article compares the images of Pugachev and the miller Thaddeus in the opera by A.A. Ablesimov "The Miller - Sorcerer, Deceiver and Matchmaker". It is shown that Pugachev in the novel is consistently revealed in the same three roles as the miller: the sorcerer, the deceiver and the matchmaker. The role of A.P. Kryukov's story "My Grandmother's Story" as an intermediary text between Ablesimov's "The Miller" and Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" is revealed.
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