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Alexander Pushkin, by Orest Kiprensky, 1827
Alexander Pushkin, by Orest Kiprensky, 1827 · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Alexander Pushkin

1799–1837 · Poet, novelist and playwright

The founder of modern Russian literature: the poet of Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman, and in prose the author of The Captain’s Daughter and The Queen of Spades. Exiled to the south and to his estate for verses the court disliked, he was killed in a duel at thirty-seven.

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9 works

Eugene Onegin, stanza beside stanza; Boris Godunov, speech beside speech; and The Captain’s Daughter, Dubrovsky, The Queen of Spades, The Tales of Belkin, Kirdjali, Egyptian Nights and The Moor of Peter the Great, in Russian beside English.

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