The Biography of Alexander Pushkin
Биография Александра Пушкина
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
is considered to be one of the greatest Russian poets of all times. He
was a famous writer of Romantic era. Pushkin was born in 1799 and has
lived a short but bright life. Many people regard him as the founder of
Russian modern literature.
Pushkin was born in a noble family and his first poem was
published when he was only 15. Although he was born in Moscow, he spent
most of his youth in the village near St Petersburg, in Tsarskoye Selo
Lyceum. As a teenager he was already a recognized by the literary
establishment of his lyceum. Some of Pushkin's famous literary works
have been numerously screened not only in Russia but also in some other
countries. For example, the drama “Boris Godunov”, the novel “Eugene
Onegin”, the tale “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, and several others. One of
Pushkin's main traits was bravery. In total he has had about 29 duels.
The last one, when he was fighting with a French officer D'Anthes, who
wanted to seduce his wife, brought him death. He was only 37. All in
all, Pushkin managed to write more than 78 long poems, 1 novel in verse,
about 20 novels and 20 fairy-tales, 8 dramas and 8 historic works, and
countless articles and shorter poems. Among his most famous works we can
find the tragedy “Motsart and Salyeri”, short stories “The Queen of
Spades”, “Peter the Great's Negro”, “The Captain's Daughter”, also some
famous fairy-tales, such as “The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman
Balda”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “the Tale of the Golden Cockerel”,
“The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” and many other world-famous
literature works.