The origin of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin comes from the ramified non-titled noble family of Pushkin, who ascended according to the genealogical legend to Ratsche's "honest husband". Pushkin repeatedly wrote about his genealogy in verse and prose; he saw in his ancestors a model of the true "aristocracy", an ancient family, honestly serving the fatherland, but not won the favor of the rulers and the "persecuted". More than once he appealed (including in artistic form) and to the image of his great-grandfather by mother - African Abram Petrovich Hannibal, who became a servant and pupil of Peter I, and then a military engineer and general.
Grandfather by father Lev Alexandrovich - artillery colonel, guard captain. His father - Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1770-1848), secular wit and amateur poet. Pushkin's mother is Nadezhda Osipovna (1775-1836), granddaughter of Hannibal. Uncle for his father, Vasily Lvovich (1766-1830), was a famous poet of the Karamzin circle. Among the children of Sergei Lvovich and Nadezhda Osipovna, except Olga, survived daughter Olga (in marriage Pavlishcheva, 1797-1868) and son Leo (1805-1852)