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Biography The greatest Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on 26 May 1799 and died on 29 January 1837 in St. Petersburg. He was not only the poet, but also dramatist, novelist and writer of short stories.

Pushkin’s early years The poet’s father came from an aristocratic family; on the mother’s side he had African ancestors. Pushkin grew up in a well-educated family. When he was twelve he was sent to school named ‘Imperial Lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo’ and soon started to write romantic poems.

Being adult Pushkin became politically active person, he supported the Decembrist revolt of 1825 and wrote political poems. In 1831 he got married and had to spend a lot of his time in society at court. Pushkin wrote more and more prose works.

St. Petersburg In 1817 Pushkin accepted a post in the foreign office at St. Petersburg. Pushkin also joined the Green Lamp association, which, though founded for discussion of literature and history, became a clandestine branch of a secret society, the Union of Welfare. In his political verses and epigrams, widely circulated in manuscript, he made himself the spokesman for the ideas and aspirations of those who were to take part in the Decembrist rising of 1825, the unsuccessful culmination of a Russian revolutionary movement in its earliest stage.

Last years In 1831 Pushkin married Natalya Nikolayevna Goncharova and settled in St. Petersburg. Once more he took up government service and was commissioned to write a history of Peter the Great. Without abandoning poetry altogether, he turned increasingly to prose. Alongside the theme of Peter the Great, the motif of a popular peasant rising acquired growing importance in his work, as is shown by the unfinished satirical “The History of the Village of Goryukhino”, the unfinished novel Dubrovsky, and finally, the most important of his prose works, the historical novel of the Pugachov Rebellion, ”The Captain's Daughter”, which had been preceded by a historical study of the rebellion, “A History of Pugachov”.

Pushkin’s contribution in literature The most famous works of Alexander Pushkin are ‘Yevgeny Onegin’, ‘Boris Godunov’, ‘The Captain’s Daughter’, ‘The Queen of Spades’, ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ and many others. Pushkin started the great tradition of Russian literature. He wrote his works the way no one else had done before – using the current language, Russian language as it was spoken instead of using style of old church books. His style had enormous influence on other Russian writers, some of his poems and stories were set to music by Russian composers.

Interesting facts about Pushkin Alexander in his maternal lineage had a black relative brought to Russia as a slave. His name was Abram Gannibal and he was given as a gift for Peter the Great. Pushkin knew Gogol. They met in 1831, Pushkin was recognized writer at the time, and he supported Gogol in the beginning of his career and later, by publishing some of Gogol’s stories in founded magazine ‘The Contemporary’. Alexander Pushkin was a serial duelist. It is thought he fought 29 duels, his last engagement was fatal.

Assessment Pushkin's use of the Russian language is astonishing in its simplicity and profundity and formed the basis of the style of novelists Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, and Leo Tolstoy. His novel in verse, Yevgeny Onegin, was the first Russian work to take contemporary society as its subject and pointed the way to the Russian realistic novel of the mid-19th century. Even during his lifetime Pushkin's importance as a great national poet had been recognized by Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol, his successor and pupil, and it was his younger contemporary, the great Russian critic Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, who produced the fullest and deepest critical study of Pushkin's work, which still retains much of its relevance. To the later classical writers of the 19th century, Pushkin, the creator of the Russian literary language, stood as the cornerstone of Russian literature, in Maksim Gorky's words, "the beginning of beginnings."

Pushkin died on 29 January 1837 in St. Petersburg Pushkin’s died Pushkin died on 29 January 1837 in St. Petersburg Pushkin's early death shocked the country. Pushkin, called by many "the sun of Russian literature", belongs among the foremost poets and writers of the world.

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