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The Life of Alexander Pushkin
Title: The Life of Alexander Pushkin
Category: Literature / Novels
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The Life of Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian 19th century who has often been considered his country’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Alexander Pushkin blended Old Slavonic with vernacular Russian into a rich, melodic language. He was the first to use everyday speech in his poetry (Lakhostskii 50).
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on May 26,1799 into a cultured but poor aristocratic family (Lakhostskii 25). On his father’s side …showed first 75 words of 1275 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1275 total…November 4 and the "pander" of his "bastard." A duel with d'Anthes took place on January 27, 1837. D'Anthes fired first, and Pushkin was wounded. Pushkin died two days later, on January 29 (Mirsky 278). He was buried beside his mother at dawn on February 6, 1837 at Svyatye Gory Monastery, near Mikhaylovskoe (Mirsky 280).
Works Cited
Lakhostskii, K.P. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Leningrad,
Proveshchenie, 1964.
Lavrin, Janko. Pushkin and Russian Literature. New York, Russell &
Russell, 1969.
Mirsky, D.S. Prince. Pushkin. New York: Dutton, 1963.
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