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  ALEXANDER PUSHKIN - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDER PUSHKIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1831 Pushkin married Natalia Goncharov, and in the following year was again attached to the ministry of foreign affairs, with a salary of 5000 roubles.
Pushkin left four children; his widow was afterwards married to an officer in the army, named Lanskoi; she died in 1863.
Pushkins poetical tales are spirited and full of dramatic power.
19.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PU/PUSHKIN_ALEXANDER.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Alexander (Aleksandr) Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin on his father's side was descended from one of the oldest families of the Russian gentry.
The young Alexander's first poems appeared when he was but fifteen, and by the time he left school he was regarded as a rival by the acknowledged literary leaders of the day.
Pushkin's greatest contemporary successes with the general public were his two poems, The Captive of the Caucasus and The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, and the drama, Boris Godunov.
www.theatrehistory.com /russian/pushkin001.html   (444 words)

  
 "Poetic Artistry and Political Ambiguity: Pushkin and Blok Remain Objective and Balanced" by John Kennedy
Pushkin's fame came at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as Russia moved politically into the modern era and poetically into the Romantic era.
During Pushkin's lifetime in the early nineteenth century, Russia's major socio-political debate was between the conservative "Slavophiles" and the liberal "Westernizers." The Slavophiles believed that Russia should develop her own culture, her own institutions, and her own place in the world.
Likewise, Pushkin's description of the statue of Peter, the bronze "idol with its arm outflung" (15) is a testament to the Westernizer philosophy since, to Westernizers, Peter is an incomparable hero, an idol to be worshipped.
www.nd.edu /~frswrite/mcpartlin/2001/Kennedy.shtml   (2112 words)

  
 Cordula's Web. Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin's father was a descendant of one of the Russian gentry's oldest families who traced their history 600 years back, while his mother was the grand-daughter of Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal, a slave from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) who was sent as a gift from Constaninople and became the adopted godchild and Engineer-General of Peter the Great.
Pushkin was influenced by the satire of Voltaire and by the tragedies of Shakespeare, and critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, a tale of the fall of Don Juan.
Pushkin's own favorite was his verse novel Eugene Onegin, which he wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus.
www.cordula.ws /a-pushkina.html   (653 words)

  
 Master: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Pushkin appears in The Master and Margarita in various guises: as the author of Eugene Onegin, the strains of which accompany Ivan on his chase; as the
Whether the novel is set in the 1920s or the 1930s, Pushkin would have been on the minds of the Soviet people: 1924 saw the 125th anniversary of the poet's birth, while 1937 was the 100th anniversary of his death.
Pushkin had become such a national hero that the authorities failed to see the threat in Bulgakov's depiction the Tsarist police state.
cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/ASPushkin.html   (462 words)

  
 Pushkin's Biography
Pushkin thought that he would be free to travel as he wished, that he could freely participate in the publication of journals, and that he would be totally free of censorship, except in cases which he himself might consider questionable and wish to refer to his royal censor.
Pushkin was married to Natalia Goncharova on February 18, 1831, in Moscow.
Pushkin was deeply offended, all the more because he was convinced that it was conferred, not for any quality of his own, but only to make it proper for the beautiful Mme.
polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /lss/staff/stephy/Bio.html   (1818 words)

  
 READINGS: Alexander Pushkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alexander Sergeievich Pushkin was born on May 26th (June 6th, according to the new style), 1799 in Moscow, into an old boyar family.
Pushkin was sent to the small town of Kishinev where he was in no mood to slow his fast paced life down.
Pushkin was dishonorably relieved from his duty as a government official and was banished to his family estate.
www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/readings/1053   (1824 words)

  
 RUS 493 - Module #1: Alexander Pushkin and Nancy Prince
Alexander Pushkin is already a respected author and prominent figure in the Tsar's court.
Pushkin's story is set in the early 1700s when his maternal great grandfather, Abram (or Ibrahim) Hannibal, a fl man of African descent, was brought from Europe to Russia by the Tsar (Peter the Great) and eventually given his freedom in exchange for a commitment of lifetime service.
Pushkin's African heritage was widely known during his time, and Pushkin himself was very interested in his family background.
webschoolsolutions.com /russian/mod1-pushkin.htm   (432 words)

  
 Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities. Russian poets, Russian painters, Russian artists
On his mother’s side Pushkin was a great grandson of the favorite of Peter the Great Abram Hannibal, son of an Abyssinian prince under the rule of the Turkish Sultan.
In 1811, Pushkin entered the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum which was founded by Alexander I for the children of Russian nobles and was aimed at raising the state elite.
Pushkin’s brilliant intelligence, sharpness of his opinion, his devotion to poetry, realistic thinking and incredible historical and political intuition make him one of the greatest Russian national geniuses.
stpetersburg-guide.com /people/pushkin.shtml   (2141 words)

  
 Review : 'The Collected Stories' by Alexander Pushkin : Pif No. 32 - January 2000
Pushkin single-handedly defined the future of Russian literature and made the leap to a new linguistic level.
Pushkin came to prose relatively late, as a natural transition from Evgeni Onegin, a novel in verse, and Boris Godunov, a drama in blank verse.
Pushkin was proud of his lineage and wrote "The Blackmoor of Peter the Great" about his African ancestor.
www.pifmagazine.com /vol32/b_a_pushkin.shtml   (720 words)

  
 Russian culture navigator
Both Pushkin and Mickiewics were fond of Byron's poetry and translated it into their languages." "Ordinary poets believed it impossible to re-create the beauty and innovative character of Byron's verses," wrote the Polish Pushkinist Vladimir Spasovich in the middle of the 19th century.
Pushkin became aware of St. Petersburg much later, of course, when at 11 he was brought to the city to study at the Royal Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo, an elite educational institution for the gentry set up by orders from Alexander the Second.
Pushkin's poems devoted to the women he loved, admired, was friends with or shared his grief and joy with, are all masterpieces of world poetry.
www.vor.ru /culture/pushk200_eng.html   (5965 words)

  
 Pushkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1820 this came to the attention of the authorities, and Pushkin was exiled to Caucasus; nonetheless, he continued to hold official posts and incurred the stern disapproval of a superior.
Pushkin was dismissed from government service in 1824 and banished to his mother's estate near Pskov.
Pushkin died February 10, 1837, from wounds that he suffered in a duel which he had fought in St. Petersburg.
www.odessaglobe.com /english/people/pushkin.htm   (283 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin's skeptical mind and sense of irony helped him capture what it means to be Russian, winning the hearts of his countrymen.
Pushkin was wounded in a duel and died on January 29, 1837.
Alexander Pushkin is one of Russia's greatest writers.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_pushkin   (1387 words)

  
 ALEXANDER PUSHKIN AND THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN RUSSIA
Alexander Pushkin has been identified as the father of Russian literature and composed in Russian during an era when most Russian writers composed in French.
Pushkin died prematurely on January 29, 1837 at 2:45 p.m., resulting from wounds suffered defending his honor in a duel.
I personally gave two presentations on Alexander Pushkin and his historical significance, and had the opportunity to visit the school that Pushkin attended and two of his residences.
www.cwo.com /~lucumi/russia.html   (888 words)

  
 RaceandHistory.com Alexander Pushkin: Russian-African genius
In her new book on Pushkin, Elaine Feinstein tells us that Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Pushkin's great-grandfather, born in Northern Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in the 1690s, was of royal stock.
Pushkin claimed that his great grandfather was a prince who lived a luxurious life.
In this highly fictionalised account of his ancestor Grannibal, Pushkin centred his story on "a Negro's wife, who is unfaithful to her husband, gives birth to a white child and is punished by being shut up in a convent".
www.raceandhistory.com /selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1038936871,18279,.shtml   (1029 words)

  
 Canadian Slavonic Papers: Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Issues of Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pushkin may travel in his own equipage at freedom, not in the position of a prisoner, and under the escort of the courier only..." (Simmons, Pushkin [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937] p.
Druzhnikov goes beyond the idea that Pushkin was Russia's prisoner and suggests that the poet collaborated with the secret police in return for his freedom to travel abroad: "He was openly being prepared for a career of informing" (p.
Pushkin's paper on education, written at the government's request, and his appeal of 1828 to be released for Paris came two years apart.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200009/ai_n8910842   (1394 words)

  
 Alexander Pushkin: Master Teacher of Dance
Alexander Pushkin: Master Teacher of Dance presents in detail three of Pushkin's classes: a Senior Class from the late 1930s-early 1940s; a Graduating Class from 1967; and an Artists' Class from the 1960s.
Gennady Albert studied under Alexander Pushkin in the 1960s and is currently Managing Director of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg.
They are the fruit of priceless experience, but not the solution to all problems, since Pushkin worked with every class, with all his students, for several years, determining fully the course of their formation, both professionally and as human beings.
www.nypl.org /publications/pushkin.cfm   (838 words)

  
 Pushkin's Poems. English Translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, and other poems.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the hope of making Pushkin available to more readers, especially those who have only a slight knowledge of Russian, or none at all, this web site is dedicated to providing a translation of some of his poems.
The reality is that very little Pushkin in English was to be found on the Internet at the time of writing.
The main aim has been to convey as much as possible of Pushkin's liveliness, the sheer abundance of his invention, and the daring unexpectedness of his wit.
www.pushkins-poems.com   (1070 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Alexander Pushkin: The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pushkin is known as a poet (his novel "Eugen Onegin", written in verses, is the crown of his art), not as a dramatist or a novelist.
Pushkin's prose was certainly heavily influenced by the literary world in which he lived--especially in Dubrovskii and The Captain's Daughter we constantly see the influence of the then-very-popular Lord Byron and Walter Scott.
However, Pushkin seems to be aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary literary fashion, and the fact that he doesn't take it too seriously and strikes out on his own fairly often is surely a big part of the reason he has proven to be vastly more enduring than the likes of Scott.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375405496?v=glance   (1722 words)

  
 alexander pushkin and russian poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His private life was not edifying, and his private letters often worse, but Alexander Pushkin the writer was a wonder.
Only Pushkin had such a range of verse styles: lyrics, elegiacs, lampoons — all of them original and infused with deep feeling, brio and the unexpected.
Alexander Pushkin's protagonist in Evgény Onégin owes much to Byron's Don Juan, but the story is wholly Russian, and has inspired countless imitations, operas, films and translations.
www.poetry-portal.com /poets8.html   (485 words)

  
 New Statesman: Secret lives, rotting books - Alexander Pushkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alexander Pushkin was born 200 years ago this year.
Pushkin's secret life - his reclusiveness, his retreats - was neither dark nor shameful; indeed, he thought of it as the very opposite, and was fully prepared to describe it, or a version of it, in a letter he wrote to his friend Vasily Davidov.
His involvement in the Greek campaign was secret by virtue of its being the obverse and denial of his Nabokovian persona, and not because it resembled the sinister secret lives led by the Decembrists, for example, who went in for a different species of political conspiracy in the Babylon of Alexandrine Russia.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4418_128/ai_53972935   (1221 words)

  
 The Eritrean Ancestry of Alexander Pushkin
However, clearly, Pushkin is more than that: he is widely acclaimed as the founder of modern Russian literature.
It appears that it was in one of such expeditions that the family history of Abraham Hannibal and Alexander Pushkin begins.
Alexander Pushkin's son, also called Alexander, joined the Russian Army and was awarded a gold sabre for bravery.
www.shaebia.org /wwwboard/contributedarticles/messages/58.html   (2675 words)

  
 Pushkin --Great Minds, Great Thinkers
Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays.
Pushkin's father was a descendant of one of the Russian gentry's oldest families, while his mother was the grand-daughter of
Decembrist Uprising in St. Petersburg, and soon Pushkin found himself under the strict control of government censors and unable to travel or publish at will.
www.edinformatics.com /great_thinkers/pushkin.htm   (516 words)

  
 ALEXANDER SERGEIEVICH PUSHKIN: PATRIARCH OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Pushkin has been positively identified as the father of Russian literature, and composed in the Russian language at a time when most Russian intellectuals were writing in French.
Of Pushkin, Feodor Dostoevsky wrote that, "No Russian writer was ever so intimately at one with the Russian people as Pushkin." Maxim Gorky wrote that, "Pushkin is the greatest master in the world.
Pushkin died prematurely, defending his honor in a duel, in January 1837.
www.cwo.com /~lucumi/pushkin.html   (335 words)

  
 Alexander Pushkin - Dueling
It was on this date, June 6, 1799, that Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow.
This is where his real education began: Pushkin studied the poetry of his contemporaries, Byron and Goethe, and the writings of Voltaire.
On the basis of his works, Pushkin is recognized as the greatest poet Russia has yet produced, and is a rallying figure of Russian pride.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0606almanac.htm   (560 words)

  
 alexander pushkin: overnightessays.com- an extensive database of university level essays, book reports, term papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alexander Pushkin in his short story "The Queen of Spades" explains the symbolism of the Queen of Spades himself when stating that the Queen of Spades "signifies secret illand#64979;will" (Pushkin).
Alexander Pushkin Analysis Of The Queen Of Spades
Alexander Pushkin And Is In Eugene Onegin S Letter To Tatyana
www.overnightessays.com /term-papers/33047/alexander-pushkin.html   (358 words)

  
 [minstrels] The Name -- Alexander Pushkin
Very little is known about Katarzyna - that she was 10 years Pushkin's senior, that she belonged to the cream of Polish nobility and that she was brought up in the house of her aunt, the legendary Princess Lubomirska (of the French Revolution fame).
By all appearances quite indifferent to both Pushkin and Mickiewicz, she was hired by the police chef Count von Benckendorff to spy upon both suspect poets.
Her correspondence with Pushkin doesn't servive except the only letter, written shortly before the marriage, in which the poet hints that he could break his engagement with his future wife at Katarzyna's first command.
www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/760.html   (1290 words)

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