Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

Great Russian poet and playwright

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths"

Articles

  • Pushkin and power

    06.01.2023

    The Russian Military Historical Society has repeatedly addressed the poet’s life and work. Today we will continue this story. It is known that the poet had a difficult relationship with the authorities.

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  • Alexander Pushkin and Anna Kern

    06.01.2023

    The first fleeting meeting of Anna Petrovna Kern and the young poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, who had yet to earn the status of “the sun of Russian poetry”, happened in 1819. At that time, the young beauty was 19 years old and she had been married for two years.

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  • Descendants of Alexander Pushkin

    06.01.2023

    Alexander Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova had four children.

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  • The relationship of the poet and the nanny

    06.01.2023

    Arina Rodionovna (known as Pushkin’s nanny), who really was the nanny of the famous writer, is known to almost everyone – both children and adults. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin deeply respected and loved her, and she, in turn, called him “angel Alexander Sergeevich.”

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  • Lyric motifs

    06.01.2023

    A. S. Pushkin considered love to be one of the most important human values. Therefore, this topic has become one of the most important in the works of the famous writer and poet.

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  • Lyceum period of Pushkin

    06.01.2023

    In 1810, a new educational institution for noble children was founded near St. Petersburg – the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, in 1811 it already accepted its first students. This institution and A. S. Pushkin’s studies in it occupy a special place in the biography of the famous Russian writer and poet.

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  • The history of writing Ruslan and Lyudmila

    06.01.2023

    A. S. Pushkin began to write the now well-known poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” during his years of study at the Lyceum in 1817.

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  • History of writing The Bronze Horseman

    06.01.2023

    The poem is based on the real story of the flood that occurred in November 1824 in St. Petersburg. During the flood, Pushkin was in exile in Mikhailovsky, so in the poem he described the events according to eyewitnesses.

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  • The history of writing The Captain’s Daughter

    06.01.2023

    He history of the creation of the “Captain’s Daughter” is important for understanding the main idea of the work of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

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  • History of writing Eugene Onegin

    06.01.2023

    Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” can rightfully be considered one of the most striking works of the era. The time at which the novel was written is fully reflected in the atmosphere and structure of the novel.

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