In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He ...

Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) came of age during the vast unheaval of the Napoleonic Wars, a period in Russian history which crucially influenced his work. This ...

Tynyanov's novel on Pushkin's formative years, written in the 1930s and early 1940s, is an entertaining panorama of the human, social and political forces that shaped Russia's ...