text:  In 1833 Pushkin was enabled to gratify this natural curiosity; and the result of his visit to the scene of the rebellion enabled him to communicate to his already plain vigorous and concise narration a tone of reality a warmth of colouring and a liveliness of language which renders it impossible to leave the book unfinished when once opened and which no elaborateness of research and no minuteness of detail could otherwise have communicated