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Definition: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeievich from Philip's Encyclopedia

Russian poet and novelist. He was exiled for his political beliefs in 1820, the year in which his folk poem Ruslan and Lyudmila published. The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1822) is his response to the beauty of the Crimea and the Caucasus; and the tragedy Boris Godunov (1826) reveals the influence of Byron. Pushkin's masterpiece was the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1833). Other works include the short story The Queen of Spades (1834) and the historical novel The Captain's Daughter (1836). He was killed in a duel fought over his wife, Natalia.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(pʊsh'kĭn, Rus. Әlyĭksän'dӘr syĭrgā'yӘvĭch pōsh'kĭn), 1799–1837, Russian poet and prose writer, among the foremost figures in Russian literature. He was born in Moscow of an old noble family; his mother's grandfather was Abram Hannibal, the black general of Peter the Great. Pushkin showed promise as a poet during his years as a student in a lyceum for young noblemen. After a riotous three years in St. Petersburg society, Pushkin was exiled to S Russia in 1820. His offenses were the ideas expressed in his Ode to Liberty and his satirical verse portraits of figures at court. The same year his fairy romance Russlan and Ludmilla was published; Glinka later adapted it as an opera. In exile Pushkin was strongly moved by the beauty of the Crimea and the Caucasus. The poems The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1822) and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (1824) describe his response to this beauty and reveal the influence of Byron . The Gypsies (1823–24) expresses Pushkin's yearning for freedom. In 1824 he…
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Ivan Krylov (1768-1844), Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783-1852) and Nikolai Ivanovich (1784-1833), writers
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Full text Article Portrait of Alexander Pushkin, 1827 (oil on canvas)

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Portrait of Alexander Pushkin, 1827 (oil on canvas)
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Full text Article Pushkin, Aleksandr (Sergeyevich)

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(born June 6, 1799, Moscow, Russia—died Feb. 10, 1837, St. Petersburg) Russian writer. Born into an aristocratic family, Pushkin began his literary career while still a student at the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo (later renamed Pushkin). His first major work was the romantic poem Ruslan and…
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Full text Article Pushkin

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(pʊsh'kĭn, Rus. pōsh'kĭn), city (1989 pop. 95,000), NW European Russia, a residential and resort suburb of St. Petersburg. It produces road-building equipment and has an important botanical institute. Founded in 1708 under Peter I on the site of a Finnish village, it was first called Tsarskoye Selo…
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Full text Article 10 February 1837

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Amber Room or Amber Chamber (Yantarnaya komnata) (1709 and 2003), Catherine Palace (Ekaterininskij dvorec), Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Full text Article 18 May 1868

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Imperial coat of arms in stone, Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), citadel of Teodoro (Fedorovskij gorodok) (20th century), near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Spire topped by medallion depicting St George, Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), citadel of Teodoro (Fedorovskij gorodok) (20th century), near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Full text Article Faun and Shepherdess

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