URuslan noLudmila Ngumbongo we-1820 obhalwe ngu Alexander Pushkin, uthathwa njengomnye wababhali abaphambili boncwadi lwaseRussia ngalo lonke ixesha. Lo mbongo ubhalwe ngokungathi ibuntsomi kunye neengoma ezibalaseleyo kwaye ubunjwe iingoma ezintandathu kunye noluhlu.
Ibali liphinda lithethe ngokuxhwilwa kukaLudmila, intombi yenkosana UVladimir waseKiev, ezandleni zomthakathi onamandla omnyama kunye nohambo lwe knight Ruslan ukumhlangula.
Pushkin waqala ukubhala umbongo ngo-1817 ngelixa wayesiya Tsarskoye Selo Imperial Lyceum. Wayephefumlelwe ngamabali ahlukeneyo esintu awawavayo ngexesha lobuntwana bakhe kwaye waba neengxaki zokupapasha lo mbongo ukusukela oko wawuphuma ekuqaleni ngo-1820 wayeselubhacweni emazantsi eli lizwe ngenxa yokuvakaliswa kwezimvo zopolitiko ezifana I-ode Libertad.
Ngo-1828 kwapapashwa uhlobo lwetekisi olwalusaziwa kakhulu. Ukubaluleka kukaRuslan noLudmila eRussia kuvelise imisebenzi ebalulekileyo enjenge-opera engaziwayo nguMikhail Glinka (1842), ifilimu eveliswe yiSoviet Union ngo-1972, kunye nefilimu esekwe kwi-opera kaGlinka, ukubiza imizekelo embalwa.