Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

Great Russian poet and playwright

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

Website about Alexander Pushkin

  • Some of the most famous novels of Alexander Pushkin

    25.04.2023

    Alexander Pushkin wrote several novellas during his lifetime, but here are some of his most famous ones with a brief summary of each.

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  • Why and how did Alexander Pushkin die?

    25.04.2023

    Alexander Pushkin died on January 29, 1837, at the age of 37. He died from a fatal wound sustained in a duel with Georges d’Anthes, a French officer who was rumored to have been having an affair with Pushkin’s wife, Natalya Goncharova.

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  • Is Pushkin a romantic writer?

    25.04.2023

    Alexander Pushkin is considered a Romantic poet and writer. The Romantic movement in literature and the arts emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a response to the Enlightenment, which emphasized reason and logic over emotion and imagination.

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  • Why is Alexander Pushkin one of the most famous writers?

    25.04.2023

    Alexander Pushkin is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Russian language and a key figure in Russian literature.

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  • Comparison between Pushkin and Eugene Onegin

    06.01.2023

    Pushkin and Onegin get closer at the time when their first youth, full of charms and disappointments, passes. They are brought together by a critical attitude to life, fatigue from the empty social fuss

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  • Pushkin and the Decembrist uprising

    06.01.2023

    Acquaintance with the future Decembrists. Political Poems and Outrage (1817-1820).

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  • Facts about Alexander Pushkin

    06.01.2023

    At the age of 4, the future great poet almost died under the hooves of the imperial horse.

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  • Alexander Pushkin’s parents

    06.01.2023

    Pushkin’s parents – Sergey Lvovich and Nadezhda Osipovna – were proud of the talent of their eldest son, but did not show him much warmth. The relationship of the greatest writer and poet with his parents could not but affect his work.

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  • Alexander Pushkin and music

    06.01.2023

    The works of A. S. Pushkin attracted composers who saw in the work of the classic a springboard for interpretation and an excellent literary source.Of course, first of all, poems were transferred to the language of music. So there were romances on Pushkin’s poems, which made up the golden fund of musical classics.

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  • Pushkin and Hannibals

    06.01.2023

    Alexander Sergeevich could not see his great—grandfather – his great-grandfather died 18 years before his birth. But he met his two sons. They were his great-uncles. To Ibrahim’s eldest son, Ivan Hannibal, Pushkin was brought to meet at the age of one year in 1800, a few months before Ivan’s death.

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