Pushkin's most famous poem is the verse novelEugene Onegin, published in 1831. Onegin, a wealthy aristocrat, goes to the country and meets the poet Lensky. He meets Lensky's fiance Olga and her sister Tatyana. He rejects Tatyana and pursues Olga, so Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel. Le...
(2) “Every poem he wrote now was written in the secret hope that it would somehow get into her hands [E.A.’s]. Otherwise he would not be able to write or rewrite a single line. He had finally understood that he couldn’t live a single day without this woman who was old enough...
Pushkin's father was a descendant of one of the Russian gentry's oldest families, while his mother was the grand-daughter of Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal, a slave from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) who became the adopted godchild and Engineer-General of Peter the Great. He published his first poem at ...
Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov (1825) while under the surveillance of the Tsar's political police, which banned him from publishing it and other works. Pushkin's well-known short stories include The Shot (1831) and ...
poem by Pushkin Also known as: “Kavkazsky plennik” Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography In Aleksandr Pushkin: Exile in the south …narrative poems: Kavkazsky plennik (1820–21; The Prisoner of the Caucasus), Bratya razboyniki (1821–22; The Robber Brothers), ...
The Bronze Horseman, poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, published in 1837 as Medny vsadnik. It poses the problem of the “little man” whose happiness is destroyed by the great leader in pursuit of
For his letters against the tsar, the poet was exiled to Mikhailovskoye. Although the two years at Mikhaylovskoye were unhappy for Pushkin, they were one of his most productive periods. Alone and isolated, he wrote The Gypsies, the poem Count Nulin, the historical tragedyBoris Godunov. In ...
In 1844 Belinsky wrote in article six of the famous cycle 'Articles on Pushkin' in regard to 'Ruslan and Liudmila': there isn't anything Russian in it, apart from the names … there isn't a glimmer of Romanticism in it either … Pushkin's poem should have been a triumph for the ...
most productive creative period of his life, producing the final chapters of Evegniy Onegin, Pushkin's first published prose collectionThe Belkin Tales, the compilation of dramatic pieces known asThe Little Tragedies, the fairytaleThe Tale of the Priest and his Workman Balda, the comic poemThe ...
"only this is true translation." Nabokov's Eugene Onegin remains the most famous and frequently cited English-language version of the most celebrated poem in Russian literature, a translation that reflects a lifelong admiration of Pushkin on the part of one of the twentieth century's most brillia...