A review by wshier
The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin

4.0

This very short novel is set during Pugachev’s peasant-Cossack revolt against Catherine the Great. A lot happens in a few pages! A spoiled child sent to a supposedly safe garrison town to "become a man", gambling, a bender, a blizzard, a rescue by a mysterious stranger, the boredom of living in the sticks and the crazy stuff it makes you do...like a duel over a woman (really the only woman around of suitable age), panic, betrayal, loyalty, and redemption.