Alexander Pushkin

Born

in Moscow, Russian Empire, Russian Federation

June 06, 1799

Died

February 10, 1837

Genre

Classics, Poetry, Fiction

Influences

Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dante Alighieri, Willi ...more

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See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was a Russian author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.

Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spok ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 141,921 ratings · 4,940 reviews · 890 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 51,581 ratings — published 1833 — 460 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Captain's Daughter 3.84 avg rating — 15,202 ratings — published 1836 — 358 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander Pushkin, Gennady Spirin (Illustrator) 4.23 avg rating — 7,536 ratings — published 1831 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin, Andrew Kahn (Editor), Alan Myers (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 7,550 ratings — published 1834 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruslan and Ludmila 4.08 avg rating — 6,027 ratings — published 1820 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen of Spades 3.94 avg rating — 8,082 ratings — published 1834 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Alexander Pushkin, Ronald Wilks (Translator), John Bayley (Introduction) 4.26 avg rating — 5,121 ratings — published 1837 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Belkin 4.15 avg rating — 4,410 ratings — published 1831 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tales by Alexander Pushkin, Arthur Boyd 4.45 avg rating — 3,559 ratings — published 1837 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin, Nancy K. Anderson (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 2,473 ratings — published 1830 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Alexander Pushkin

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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“I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.”
― Alexander Pushkin

tags: death, desire, dreams, grief, heart, lonliness, numbness, poetry

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“I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul
The former love has never gone away,
But let it not recall to you my dole;
I wish not sadden you in any way.

I loved you silently, without hope, fully,
In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain;
I loved you so tenderly and truly,
As let you else be loved by any man. ”
― Alexander Pushkin

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November 2018 Old School Poll

The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo 1829, 109 pages

68 votes, 24.8%

The Misanthrope by Molière 1666, 64 pages

61 votes, 22.3%

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 1832, 240 pages

56 votes, 20.4%

An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 1882, 164 pages

52 votes, 19.0%

Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac 1846, 468 pages

37 votes, 13.5%

274 total votes

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