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- Birth nameAleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
- Born to noble parents (his father Sergei was a retired major, and his mother, Nadezhda, was the granddaughter of an ennobled Ethiopian general) on the 26th of May, 1799 in Moscow, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin became involved with a liberal underground revolutionary group that saw him exiled to the Caucasus.
He spent most of his time there writing poetry and novels. In 1826 Pushkin was pardoned by the Tsar and allowed to return home after six years of exile. He married Natalia Goncharova, whose coquettish behavior led to her husband challenging an admirer of hers to a duel in January 1837. Though both were wounded, only Pushkin died two days later from his injuries.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Nichol - On his mother's side he was the great-grandson of Hannibal, the Moor of Emperor Peter the Great. Alexander Pushkin attended the Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo from 1811 to 1817. The first poem with which he went public dates back to this time, in 1814. The theme of his first works was dedicated to the experience of love, which was also linked to the fear of rejection. In 1817 he joined the literary society "Arzamas" and then moved to the circle "Selyonaya lampa". In the same year he entered the civil service in the "College for Foreign Affairs". In addition to his love poetry, Pushkin also wrote the first political epigrams that spoke out in favor of a constitutional constitution in Russia.
The ode "Volnost" was written in this style as early as 1817. The poet was banished from Petersburg for his political views, which resulted in the officers' revolt of 1825. In 1820 his work "Russia and Ludmilla" was published. After leaving Petersburg, he undertook numerous trips, which took him through the Caucasus and the Crimea, among other places. Important works were also created there, such as "The Prisoner in the Caucasus" (1821) and "The Fountain of Bachèisaraj" (1822). In their style as verse epics and their subject matter, these early works are still based on European Romanticism. After he was transferred to Odessa as a punishment, work began on his major work "Evgeny Onegin". The novel's verse structure allows the distinction between prose and written language to disappear.
In this way he draws an ironic document of time and society. In 1824 Pushkin had to leave the civil service. He stayed on his mother's estate in Michajlovskoe near Pskov until 1826. There he became familiar with the language of the common people, which, when mixed with the language of the office and church, became the hallmark of his literary style. In doing so, Pushkin helped this stylistic aesthetic gain world fame in the literary language. In the style of folk poetry, at the suggestion of Shakespeare, he wrote the tragedy "Boris Godunov" (1825). At the behest of Tsar Nicholas I, Pushkin returned to Petersburg after the failed Decembrist uprising of 1825. He lived there as a freelance writer. The connection to the tsar's court actually meant an intentional censorship observation.
The topic of censorship crops up again and again in his works. In 1831 he married Natalia Goncharova. In order to be able to support his large family, he returned to secure civil service. The couple moved to Petersburg in 1831, where, with the support of Goncharova's wealthy relatives, they were able to participate in the glamorous life of the tsar's court, which frustrated Pushkin, who longed for independence. His works during this time were created under great psychological pressure. As a poet, he turned to narrative techniques during this time. His prose works, such as the title "Belkin's Tales" (1831), were primarily characterized by a vernacular character. In 1833 his work "The Copper Rider" was published, which was rejected by the tsar's court because of its independence and complexity.
In the same year the historical short novel "The Captain's Daughter" was written. Three years later, Pushkin founded the magazine "Sovremennik". Pushkin's literary motif, the duel, caught up with him in a bitterly real way.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin died on February 10, 1837 at the age of thirty-eight as a result of a duel in St. Petersburg.
The circumstances surrounding this fatal encounter have not yet been fully clarified and contribute to the myth of the Russian poet.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
- SpouseNatalia Goncharova(February 18, 1831 - February 10, 1837) (his death, 4 children)
- Great-grandson of black Ethiopian prince Ibrahim Hannibal, who came to Russia during the Czar Peter the Great's rule, became a general in Russian Army and was given nobility.
- Pushkin is considered the father of the Russian Golden Age of Literature.
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