Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 into an old noble family; his maternal great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, was an African brought to Russia who became a general under Peter the Great. Pushkin was educated at the new Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo, where his poetic gifts were recognized early. His liberal poems angered the government, and in 1820 he was sent into exile in southern Russia and later confined to his family estate at Mikhailovskoye. Many of his friends took part in the Decembrist revolt of 1825. Pardoned by Nicholas I in 1826, he remained under the tsar's personal censorship. Pushkin wrote lyric poems, narrative poems such as The Bronze Horseman, the historical drama Boris Godunov, prose tales including The Queen of Spades and The Captain's Daughter, and his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. In 1831 he married Natalya Goncharova. Rumors about a French officer, Georges d'Anthès, and his wife led Pushkin to challenge him to a duel in January 1837; Pushkin was mortally wounded and died two days later.

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