” a piece inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s eponymous poem. Glinka, often regarded as the father of modern Russian music due to his distinctive nationalistic style, influenced subsequent Russian composers like Rimsky-Korsakov, T...
and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. While under ...
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Alexander Pushkin is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, and the founder of modern Russian literature. Alexander Pushkin’s poemRuslan and Ludmilabegins with a prologue in which he (the author) sits beneath an oak tree, where a learned cat on a golden chain tells him a fant...
The banner behind Petersburg’s newly minted mounted police features an illustration of and a reference to the Battle of Poltava (1709) and a quotation from Alexander Pushkin’s poem The Bronze Horseman (1837): “Now, city of Peter, stand thou fast, / Foursquare, like Russia; vaunt thy ...
But, as the Moscow Times writes, Russian journalists and bloggers, out of curiosity, started posting Facebook posts containing the offending word to see what would happen. Journalist Maxim Kononenko got a one-week ban after posting a poem by Alexander Pushkin, which contained the word “khokhly...
Roman Kocherzhevsky’s endlessly inventive reimagining of the classic Russian poem shakes off a layer of dust from the revered work to help us answer questions we all face today. It doesn’t matter whether Kocherzhevsky has dressed his actors in waterproof trench coats or embroidered tailcoats...
Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous pl...
Alexander became one of the first thirty students who studied there. While at the Lyceum Pushkin began to write the romantic poem Ruslan and Lyudmila. It brought Pushkin fame, and Zhukovsky presented his portrait to the poet with the inscription “To the victorious pupil from the defeated master...