| Name | Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (1799 - 1837) | Sources Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (trans. Johnston), p1. Mirsky, Modern Russian Literature, 1925, pp7-10. |
| Biography | A poet and dramatist, Aleksandr Pushkin was the seminal master of modern Russian literature. |
| Paradoxically, Pushkin was influenced by Europe and evidenced a 'pan-humanity' as Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it, yet he is viewed as the personification of Russian poetry. He was a leading figure during the period known as the 'Golden Age of Russian Poetry'. |
| Pushkin was exiled at one point for writing mildly subversive poetry prior to the Decembrist uprising. | |
| Pushkin died in a duel in January 1837. | |
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| Bibliography |
Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (translated by Charles Johnston), Penguin Classics, 1979.
Prince D. S. Mirsky, Modern Russian Literature, Oxford University Press, London, 1925.
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| Selected Works |
Eugene Onegin
The Prisoner of the Caucasus
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
The Gipsies
Boris Godunov (Gudenov)
Poltava
The Tales of Belkin
The Captain's Daughter
The Queen of Spades
The Golden Cockerel
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Eugene Onegin
Marie
Russian Romance
The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems
Selected Works: Poetry
The Queen of Spades
Fairy Tales
The Little Tragedies
The Snow Storm
The Bridegroom: with "Count Nulin" and "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel"
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| See Also | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol | |
