| Names |
ALEXANDER
Sergeyevich PUSHKIN |
| Date of Birth |
June 06, 1799 |
| Date of
Death |
February 10, 1837 |
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Profession / Traits / Activities |
Russian Author and Poet |
| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- A Russian author of the Romantic era.
- Considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and
the founder of modern Russian literature.
- He was born in Moscow into the Russian nobility.
- But by the time Pushkin was born, the family suffered
financial setbacks.
- His great-grandfather – Abraham Gannibal – was brought
over as a slave from Africa and had risen to become an
aristocrat.
- Pushkin attended a special school for privileged
children of the nobility.
- He was very good in French and Russian literature.
- The first poems written by him in his teens were widely
recognized in the literate society.
- He wrote about 130 poems between 1814 and 1817, while
still at school.
- Most of his works written between 1817 and 1820 were not
published because his topics were considered inappropriate.
- In 1820 he completed his first narrative poem, Russlan
and Ludmilla; but before it could be published, he was
exiled to the south of Russia because of the political
humour he had expressed in his earlier poems.
- After 1830 Pushkin's enthusiasm for writing poetry
was getting diminished.
- He married Natalie Goncharova in 1831. But their married
life remained wanting as his wife had many other admirers.
He challenged one of her admirers to a duel as a result of
which he was wounded and died soon thereafter.
- His death at the age of just 37 is still regarded as a
catastrophe for Russian literature.
- Many of Pushkin's works provided the basis for operas by
Russian composers.
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Commemorations |
- In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin
in his honour.
- There are several museums in Russia dedicated to
Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg,
and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
- Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical
film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
- A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by
Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named
after him.
- A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
- UN Russian Language Day, established by
the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on
6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's
birthday.
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