But more importantly, the poet praised Napoleon's historical contribution with profound historical understanding and reviewed his extraordinary life. The poet devoutly called Napoleon's lonely death "the death of great people and stars" and called him "shining with immortal light"
The poet affirmed Napoleon's great significance to Russian and world history from the height of historical development. Napoleon once introduced the French bourgeois revolutionary thought into Russia, which aroused the revolutionary enthusiasm of a generation of young Russian intellectuals against the czar's tyranny and promoted the development of the democratic movement against feudal rule in Russia and even Europe as a whole. So Pushkin said at the end of the poem Napoleon that "he pointed out a lofty mission for the Russian people and gave the world eternal freedom". This is also an important reason why Pushkin praised Napoleon in To the Sea.
The material extending into the sea was created in 1825. At that time, the poet was escorted from Odessa, an exile in southern Russia, to the village of Mikailov Skoye, his parents' territory, and was placed under house arrest. "To the Sea" was brewed in Odessa and finally completed in Mihailov Skoye.
The poet yearned for freedom all his life and attacked tyranny. But he was imprisoned in tyranny all his life. To the Sea was written in the state of pursuing freedom but not having it, and personal freedom was gradually lost. The poet bid farewell to Odessa on the Black Sea. Facing the rough sea, he thought that he would be escorted to the gloomy future of the village of Skoye in Khailov, and could not help but imagine.