Two great obstacles confront the non-Russian speaking reader when reading Pushkin. The first, famously, concerns his language. Many is the reader who, after reading a few of his more Byronic poems, or ...

Peggy Lohse Alexander Pushkin has long been the most prominent symbol of Russian literature. While the government never allowed him to leave the Russian Empire, he was an avid traveler and so it’s no ...

Nicholas I, a humourless and ruthless autocrat, had begun his reign by executing five aristocrats who had led the Decembrist uprising against him in 1825; another 120 conspirators were exiled to the ...

Whatever Russia's ruling ideology during the last 100-odd years, Aleksandr Pushkin has been its icon. Dostoevsky, at the belated unveiling of the poet's memorial in 1880, gave a eulogy driven by his ...

Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s favorite literary son, not ours, which hardly justifies the fact that his two-hundred-and-tenth anniversary—he was born in 1799 and died, in a duel, in 1837—has not ...

TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...

From two 1824 letters by Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Kaznacheev. The first is in response to an assignment to investigate the extermination of locusts that Pushkin refused to undertake; the second ...

KYIV — It sounds like a story out of a surrealist Russian novel — but according to Ukrainian prosecutors, the danger was very real indeed. They allege that Oleksandr Kostornyy, the 72-year-old head of ...

Vasily Tropinin; Pixabay; Berkley; Illustrated edition,2003; Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2020; Ignatius, 2011; NYRB Classics; Reprint edition, 2012 Brits have ...