Aleksandr Pushkin
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Alexander Pushkin's Biography  ALEXANDER PUSHKIN'S BIOGRAPHY. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on the 26th of May, 1799 in Moscow in the noble family (his father was the...
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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin | Russian author | Britannica.com  Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, (born May 26 [June 6, New Style], 1799, Moscow, Russiadied January 29 [February 10], 1837, St. Petersburg) Russian poet,...
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Pushkin's African background - the Pushkins and the Gannibals  About Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696-1781), the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin.
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Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet...
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Aleksandr Pushkin Biography - life, family, children, parents, death ...  Aleksandr Pushkin is ranked as one of Russia's greatest poets. He not only brought Russian poetry to its highest excellence, but also had a great influence on all...
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Nikolay Gogol | Russian writer | Britannica.com  Anxious to achieve fame as a poet, he published it at his own expense, but its failure was so ... were the poets Aleksandr Pushkin and Vasily Zhukovsky, both of whom he had met before. .... of the second volume of Dead Souls on February 24 (February 11, O.S.), 1852. Ten days later he died, on the verge of semimadness.
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Eugene Onegin Themes | GradeSaver  Eugene Onegin study guide contains a biography of Alexander Pushkin, literature ... Tatyana is French due to her love for French romance novels, and Lensky is German ... Although the only purely Russian characters are the peasants, mentioned only as ... He disdains their lack of elegance, and they don't like his carriage.
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Best Monuments in St Petersburg, Russia  Oct 20, 2016 ... These monuments contribute to the unique historical, architectural and artistic ... Just one block away from the Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum, ... a remake of a valuable exhibit in the Winter Palace: a wax figure of Peter I. Some ... This is another monument devoted to Alexander Pushkin erected on...
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Aleksandr Popov | Russian engineer | Britannica.com  Evidently he built his first primitive radio receiver, a lightning detector (1895), without ... Aleksandr Popov, in full Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov (born March 4 [March 16, ... generally accepted that radio communication was actually invented by him. ... the first to use an antenna in the transmission and reception of radio waves.
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Badass of the Week: Rasputin  When he entered the gates of Saint Petersburg in 1903, Rasputin was an illiterate ... Russia was convinced that this crazy mysterious monk had the power to ... his powers as a mystic that caught the attention of Empress Alexandra of Russia. ... the "mad monk" was really fucking awesome at kicking the ass of hemophilia.
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Alexander Pushkin Biography | List of Works, Study Guides ...  He followed the traditional aristocratic career path by taking a post in the ... Also, in 1823 Pushkin began writing his novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin. ... Pushkin completed several works including The Tales of Belkin, a short-story collection. ... Onegin in 1831; writing "The Queen of Spades," his most famous short-story, and...
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008 - YBP.com - Feature ...  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian writer, historian and ... and anti-soviet dissident activities and for The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1978). He was ... of 1917 and WWI titled The Red Wheel in four parts/knots: August 1914 (1971), ... I got to know about Solzhenitsyn's first published book One Day in the Life of Ivan...
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"The Creation and Transformation of a Cultural Icon: Aleksandr ...  Jun 1, 2011 ... A former Marxist, a veteran, and a dissident, Aleksandr Isaevich .... Mere weeks after Solzhenitsyn' s membership was restored - his ..... the life that was given to us [. .... s return on 27 May 1994 had been rooted in his condemnation of ..... "Russian TV Pulls the Plug on Solzhenitsyn's Biting Talk Show," The...
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Alexander Pushkin's Biography  This family (except Alexander were also Olga and Lev) belonged to the most educated ... French governesses, his grandmother Maria Alexeevna and the famous nanny ... At the same time he was working on his first large-scale work, Ruslan and Ludmila. ... and he started his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin (1823-1831).
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Pushkin House-Museum on Arbat - Moscow - Moscow Region ...  Pushkin House-Museum on Arbat, Located on Arbat Street, this two-storey house ... Famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) rented for six months in 1831 but ... 53 Arbat Street ... The house-museum, now an important cultural meeting place, is a branch of the ... From Capital to Baikal 10D / 9N from Moscow.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the .... In February 1945, while serving in East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn was arrested...
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Russian Literature - 3 | Britannica.com  Results 101 - 196 of 196 ... Master and Margarita, The novel written by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov ... is the protagonist of Aleksandr Pushkin 's masterpiece Eugene Onegin (1833). ... Pushkin Prize Russian literary prize established in 1881 in honour of ... In the story a Russian officer of German ancestry named Hermann...
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Peter Kropotkin - Wikiquote  Prince Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin (  ) (9 December 1842  8 February 1921) was a Russian geographer, zoologist, and one of...
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Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin | Russian revolutionary | Britannica.com  February 8, 1921 ... The son of Prince Aleksey Petrovich Kropotkin, Peter Kropotkin was ... was expelled at the demand of the Russian government after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by revolutionaries in 1881. ... Philosopher of revolution .... when the black flag of anarchism was paraded through the Russian capital.
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Mikhail Lermontov - Wikipedia  Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only ... Having moved up the ranks to captain, he married the sixteen-year-old Maria...
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Eugene Onegin Chapter 2 Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver  Eugene Onegin study guide contains a biography of Alexander Pushkin, literature ... Into this picture enters the young, fiery poet Vladimir Lensky just back from ... dull and uninteresting; uninterested in marriage, he spurns their evident plans to pair a ... Similarly, Tatyana's mother had once fallen in love with a character from...