Life of One of the Foremost Figures in Russian Literature
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, dramatist, novelist. By many he is still considered Russia's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
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There was something interesting about Pushkin's family. His father was an affable chatterer, but he was useless, empty and idle man. His wife was neither stupid nor ugly, but she had many of peculiarities. She was bad in housekeeping. Her home was always upside down; there was never enough of anything.
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I once heard one of the Pushkin's poems in Russian and I was very impressed even though I don't speak the language. It just sounded like listening to music!
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The Childhood of Aleksandr...
This irritated his mother. She did not really like him and always showed much more affection to his older sister Olga, and his younger brother, Lev. In his childhood Aleksandr did not display special talents. He was clumsy, often ill. His mother complained about the way he rubbed his hands together and she punished him by tying his hands behind his back for a whole day. The child more liked to spend time with his grandmother, Maria Alexeyevna, who had come to live with her daughter. He felt himself free from his scolding mother and from the whole world, where was no place for him. Sometimes Aleksandr could spend his time with the old nanny, Arina Rodionovna, she knew so many legends, old songs. Little Pushkin could never tire of listening to her. Aleksandr's nanny was his most generous companion.
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First Poem and Beyond...
Pushkin wrote verse himself when he was eight years old. This included a parody of Voltaire's epic "Herinade", which told the story of a war dwarves. But his French tutor, M. Rousselot, ridiculed him. Aleksandr was punished for "laziness", and he burned his verse in the stove.
In 1811, when Aleksandr was twelve, his parents decided to send him away to school. He was sent to a lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo near St Petersburg. Aleksandr felt his first real taste of privilege. During the six years in lyceum he did not return home. His parents sometimes visited him at school, usually to scold him for a bad behavior. Whenever Pushkin was telling about his childhood, he always started with the lyceum, as if he did not want to remind himself his earlier memories.
In 1817, Aleksandr graduated from the lyceum. He received the rank of collegiate secretary and an appointment to the Collegium of Foreign Affairs.
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Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin wrote many lyric poems, dramas.
Pushkin established the modern poetic language of Russia, using Russian history as a basis for many of his works such as: the poems "Poltava"(1828), " The Bronze Horseman"(1833), "Boris Godunov"(1831), a short novel "The Captain's Daughter" (1837), " The History of the Pugachev Rebellion"(1834).
Pushkin established the modern poetic language of Russia
Pushkin's writings are available in English.
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pushkin
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The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Alexander Pushkin
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Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Leonid Andreyev, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vsevolod M. Garshin, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, Nikolai Leskov, Alexander Pushkin
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Best Russian Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev
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Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics) by Alexander Pushkin
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In 1836, Pushkin began publishing the journal "Sovremennik"; he publishes his own critical and publicist works.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin died in the duel with baron d'Anthes, who had passion for Pushkin's wife.
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: ?????????? ?????????? ???????, , ) (?) was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poetShort biography from University of Virginia, retrieved on 24 November 2006.[http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2004/March/bkpub1print.asp Allan Reid, "Russia's Greatest Poet/Scoundrel"], retrieved on 2 September 2006.BBC News, 5 June 1999, "Pushkin fever sweeps Russia", retrieved 1 September 2006.BBC News,...
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Eugene Onegin is the most famous to me. The first time I heard of him was in high school. 5* and faved! Hope to see you in my carnival glass lens! Posted June 13, 2008 |
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Great lens! I am glad you stopped by mine so I found yours :) Culture and the arts is so much a part of the life of our Russian friends, it makes them special amoung the worlds peoples. Thanks for sharing this poet, I will check out your links and videos -Marty Posted May 30, 2008 |
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hesika
Thank you for your lens. I growed up with the great poets of your homeland, such as Tolstoy, Scholochow, Pushkin, Gorky and so on. Therefore I'm very grateful to find here some lenses about these famous Russian poets. Thank you so much and five stars for this lens as well as favortied to come back and read all once more in calm. Posted May 27, 2008 |
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BFuniv.com
I had heard of Pushkin, but little more. This was a great introduction, thank you. Posted May 19, 2008 |
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Works cited:
Feinstein, Elaine. Pushkin a biography. Hopewell: The ECCO PRESS, 1999
Troyat, Henry. Pushkin. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970
