The Gypsies (poem)
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The Gypsies (1827) is a narrative poem in 569 lines by Alexander Pushkin, originally written in Russian.
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Adaptations
Boris Gasparov estimates that The Gypsies has inspired some eighteen operas and half a dozen ballets, including Sergei Rachmaninoff's Aleko (1893), Ruggero Leoncavallo's Zingari (1912), and Vasily Kalafati's Gypsies [Tsygany] (1941).
It is speculated that The Gypsies was the inspiration for Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen written in 1845, on which Georges Bizet's opera Carmen was based in 1875.
Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.
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