This article studies the spiritual problems found in The Little Tragedies written by Pushkin during the Boldino autumn of 1830. In this dramaturgic collection, the poet undertakes a brilliant creative exploration of the main passions of the new European man. The passions are avarice (The Miserly Knight), pride, envy (Mozart and Salieri), philandering (The Stone Guest), cynical attitude toward death and fear of immortality (A Feast in Time of Plague). Each of these tragedies is based on a Western European literature source which the poet reinterprets in the light of the Orthodox cultural tradition. The conciseness of the form and the “creative economy of the thought”, so typical for The Little Tragedies, make the methodology of the research quite complex. Academician A.A. Potebnya called this phenomenon “concentration of the thought in a word”. The explanation of these thoughts that carry the energy of the prophetic revelations is only possible through a detailed analysis of the text and an integrated represen