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Alexander Pushkin


Born
in Moscow, Russian Empire
June 06, 1799

Died
February 10, 1837

Genre

Influences


Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.

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

People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.

Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the
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“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
Alexander Pushkin

“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

“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

Polls

May 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages
 
  41 votes, 18.6%

 
  35 votes, 15.9%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages
 
  29 votes, 13.2%

 
  21 votes, 9.5%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.8%

1867, Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, 201 pages
 
  14 votes, 6.4%

1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1833, Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, 240 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.0%

 
  10 votes, 4.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.1%

1864, Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 477 pages
 
  8 votes, 3.6%

 
  8 votes, 3.6%

1859, Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages
 
  6 votes, 2.7%

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