Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin

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Hesperus Press, 2009 - 152 pages

Alexander Pushkin is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest poet, and through his poems as well as his experimentation with other genres—dramas, short stories, prose novels—he influenced generations of Russian and international writers. This exquisite biography examines Pushkin as writer, lover, and public figure, exploring his relationship with politics and providing a fascinating glimpse of the turbulent history that surrounded Pushkin’s life. This is a succinct and sympathetic guide to understanding Russia’s most celebrated literary figure.

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Childhood and Ancestry 17991811
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The South 18204
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Mikhailovskoye 18246
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Robert Chandler has translated the poetry of Sappho and Apollinaire as well as Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, and numerous works by Andrei Platonov.

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