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Alexander Pushkin

Short biography: Alexander Pushkin in Great Lives

About Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's national poet, wrote lyrics, narrative poems, dramas and tales, and died after a duel at thirty-seven.

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Eugene Onegin

1825-1832 (complete 1833) · 19th Century · Poetry

Eugene Onegin is Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, published in parts between 1825 and 1832 and as a complete book in 1833. It is written in a special fourteen-line stanza, now called the Onegin stanza, and is considered the founding masterpiece of modern Russian literature.