Despite their problematic historical roles, Catherine II and Pugachev act as true benefactors to Masha and Petr, thereby establishing generational and historical continuity in Russian history. The novel uses familial metaphors, presenting such unlikely figures as the leader of the uprising, Pugachev, and the empress, Catherine the Great, as proxy parents to the novel's protagonists, Petr Grinev and his future wife, Masha Mironova. This article investigates tensions between national and imperial discourses as reflected in Pushkin's novel The Captain's Daughter, in which the novel's author and its protagonists cannot fully identify with either the "national" community of the people or with the imperial state.
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