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    Alexander Pushkin Biography

    Alexander (or Aleksándr) Sergeyvich Pushkin (1799—1837) was a Russian poet born in Moscow, on the 7th of June 1799. He belonged to an ancient family of boyars; his maternal great-grandfather, a favourite negro ennobled by Peter the Great, bequeathed to him curly hair and a somewhat darker complexion than falls to the lot of the ordinary Russian. In 1811 the future poet entered the newly founded lyceum of Tsarskoe Selo, situated near St Petersburg. On quitting the lyceum in 1817 he was attached to the ministry of foreign affairs, and in this year he began the composition of his Ruslan and Ly’udmila, a poem which was completed in 1820.

    Portrait of Alexander Pushkin by Vasily Andreevich Tropinin. 1827. Oil on canvas. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

    Meanwhile Pushkin mixed in all the gayest society of the capital, and it seemed as if he would turn out a mere man of fashion instead of a poet. But a very daring Ode to Liberty written by h

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    Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
    Russian 19th century author who often has been considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin blended Old Slavonic with vernacular Russian into a rich, melodic language. He was the first to use everyday speech in his poetry. Pushkin's Romantic contemporaries were Byron (d. 1824) and Goethe (d. 1832), but his ironic attitude can be connected to the literature of the 18th century, especially to Voltaire. Pushkin wrote some 800 lyrics with a dozen narrative poems.

    "Love passed, the muse appeared, the weather
    of mind got clarity newfound;
    now free, I once more weave together
    emotion, thought, and magic sound."

    (from Eugene Onegin, 1823)

    Aleksandr Pushkin was born in Moscow into a cultured but poor aristocratic family. On his father's side he was descended from an ancient noble family and on his mother's side he was a great-great-grandson of a black

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    BIOGRAPHIES

    Tsiavlovskii, M. A.  Letopisʹ zhizni i tvorchestva Aleksandra Pushkina.  M: Slovo, 1999-2005.  (F) PG3350 .T75 1999

    Detailed, for the most part day-by-day chronology of Pushkin's life and work.  In kvartet volumes, with a fifth supplementary volume of indices, extra ämne, and bibliography.

    Veresaev, V. V.  Pushkin v zhizni.  The Hague: Mouton, 1969.  (F) PG3350 .V46 1969

    Interesting biography of Pushkin told entirely through excerpts from documentary source materials (letters, reminiscences of contemporaries, images, etc.).  In two volumes; index for both volumes at the end of the second.  Facsimile reprint of the 1936 Sovetskii pisatel' edition.

    Binyon, T. J.  Pushkin: a biography.  London: HarperCollins, 2002.  (F) PG3350 .B55 2002

    The most recent English-language biography of Pushkin; aimed at a general, rather than a scholarly, audience.  Another relatively recent biography in