| Alexander Pushkin | |
|---|---|
 Alexander Pushkin bi Vasily Tropinin | |
| Born | Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 6 Juin 1799 Moscow, Roushie Empire |
| Dee'd | 10 Februar 1837 (aged 37) Saunt Petersburg, Roushie Empire |
| Thrift | Poet, novelist, playwright |
| Leid | Roushie, French |
| Naitionality | Roushie |
| Alma mater | Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum |
| Period | Gowden Age o Roushie Poetry |
| Genre | Novel, novel in verse, poem, drama, short story, fairytale |
| Leeterar muivement | Romanticism, pre-realism |
| Notable warks | Eugene Onegin, The Caiptain's Dochter, Boris Godunov, Ruslan an Ludmila |
| Spoose | Natalia Pushkina (1831–1837) |
| Bairns | Maria, Alexander, Grigory, Natalia |
| Relatives | Sergei Lvovich Pushkin, Nadezhda Ossipovna Gannibal |
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Roushie: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин; 6 June [A.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [A.S. 29 January] 1837) wis a Roushie author o the Romantic era[1] who is considered bi mony tae be the greatest Roushie poet[2][3][4][5] an the foonder o modren Roushie leeteratur.[6][7]
Pushkin wis born into Roushie nobility in Moscow. His great-grandfaither frae his mither's side – Abram Gannibal – wis brocht ower as a slave frae Africae an haed risen tae become an aristocrat.[8] Pushkin published his first poem at the age o fifteen, an wis widely recognisit bi the leeterar establishment bi the time o his graduation frae the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
While unner the strict surveillance o the Tsar's poleetical polis an unable tae publish, Pushkin wrote his maist famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, wis serialisit atween 1825 an 1832.
Notoriously touchy aboot his honour, Pushkin focht as mony as twinty-nine duels, an wis fatally woondit in such an encounter wi Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. D'Anthès, a French officer servin wi the Chevalier Gaird Regiment, haed been attemptin tae seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina.
