Life and career Ancestry. Pushkin’s man, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its
Aleksandr Pushkin is, by common agreement — at least among his own compatriots — the greatest of all Russian writers. The major part of his lyrical poetry was
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Early life. Sophie was born at Geneva, Switzerland, the first of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau and Natalya Alexandrovna Pushkina. As the marriage of her
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Alexander Pushkin [Aleksandr Sergeyevich] (1799-1837), “Russia’s Bard” and one of the most important contributors to modern Russian literature wrote the epic
A Novel in Verse by Alexandr Pushkin, Translated from the Russian, with a commentary and Vladimir Nabokov
Biography of Alexander Pushkin. Learn more about Pushkin’s life in St Petersburg and other Saint Petersburg biographies.
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