Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

Great Russian poet and playwright

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

Website about Alexander Pushkin

  • Love story with Goncharova

    06.01.2023

    Alexander Sergeevich first saw Natalia Nikolaevna in December 1828 at one of the Moscow balls. She was only 16 years old, and she had just begun to be taken out into the world.

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  • History of the duel with Dantes

    06.01.2023

    The story of Alexander Pushkin’s last duel began three months before the fatal shot. In November 1836, the poet receives a letter with the so-called patent for the title of cuckold, in which the anonymous author hints at the infidelity of the poet’s wife.

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  • Friendship for Pushkin

    06.01.2023

    Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has always been in awe of friendly relations. Pushkin’s friends were one of the important components of life for the writer.

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  • Boldin autumn

    06.01.2023

    Boldinskaya autumn of 1830 is the time and place that gave Russian literature the best works of A.S. Pushkin.

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  • Exile in Mikhailovskoye

    06.01.2023

    It should be noted that the caustic, and even evil lines of the ode “Liberty” could not but outrage the tsarist government, accustomed to praising court poets. Alexander I saw in this ode an attempt on autocracy. Moreover, he had heard rumors about secret societies.

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  • Pushkin ‘s Southern Exile

    06.01.2023

    In May 1820, Alexander Pushkin left St. Petersburg for Yekaterinoslav, now the Dnieper. Thus began the poet’s exile to the south of the Empire. At the time of departure, the poet was almost 21 years old.

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  • Periodization of creativity

    06.01.2023

    The first period of Pushkin’s work (1813 – summer 1817) falls during a fierce struggle between the Karamzin and Shishkovists. Pushkin, a lyceum student, actively joined it on the side of Karamzin.

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