Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era, widely regarded as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature [2]. He was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow, the son of Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, who belonged to an old noble family [7]. Among his notable ancestors was Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman and military general of African origin who had been freed by Peter the Great and raised in the imperial household [7]. Throughout his life Pushkin wrote under several pseudonyms, including Ivan Petrovich Belkin and Feofylakt Kosichkin, among others [12].

Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen and had already earned wide recognition from the literary establishment by the time he graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum [11]. His graduation recitation of the controversial "Ode to Liberty" was among the works that led to his exile by Emperor Alexander I [11]. While under political surveillance and restricted from publishing, he composed the celebrated play Boris Godunov, and his major novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832 [11]. His life and legacy have since become the subject of a dedicated field of scholarly inquiry [6].

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