Alexander pushkin

Alexander pushkin

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  ALEXANDER PUSHKIN B OR N : J U N E 6 , 1 7 9 9 , M O S C O W, R U S S I A D E C E A S E D : F E B R UA R Y 1 0 , 1 8 3 7 , P E T E R S B U R G , R U S S I A Author & Poet
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  EARLY LIFE • Wasof African descent • Born into upper class literary family • Actual mother took little interest in him, so had nurses/ French tutors • Loved his nanny Arina Rodionovna, like mother figure more • Entered an elite school called the Lyceum at age 12 • Began working in the foreign office of St. Petersburg, Russia • (Where he had affairs with two married women)
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  MOSCOW, RUSSIA • Thismuseum, honoring the greatest poet in Russian history • Monument of Alexander Pushkin in front of the Russian Museum
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  EDUCATION  Entered theLyceum in 1811 which was only open for the sons of 'select' noblemen  Graduated from the Lyceum in 1817  Taught by the great poet Vasily Zhukovsky
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  WRITING STYLE  Russianpoet, novelist, playwright of the Romantic era  Pushkin's work in short stories shows simplicity, versatility and clarity.  In short stories showed satire, romance, and drama.  Which later influenced Russian writers
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  INFLUENCES  Byron  Votlaire Goethe  Schiller  Shelley  Keats  Dante INFLUENCEDAlexander Pushkin influenced almost all Russian literature. k  Chenier  Batyuskov  Derzhavin  Fonvizin  Karamzin  Zhukovsky  Shakespeare
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  INFLUENCED  Alexander Pushkin influencedmost of Russian literature.  Akhmatova  Blok  Hristo Botev  Brodsky  Bulgakov  Bunin  Chekhov  Dostoevsky  Gogol & many more..
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  NATALYA GONCHAROVA • Engagedfor 3 years • In love • Settled on agreements • Published Natalya Goncharova as a wedding gift • Finally married on 18 February1831 in Moscow.
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  ACHIEVEMENTS  Wrote hisfirst published poem, To a Poet Friend at the age of 14  Wrote Freedom in 1817, but wasn’t published until his death  Ruslan and Ludmila, written in 1820 was first major poem  Wrote several dramas including Boris Godunov in 1831  Wrote his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in 1823-31 which later became a Tchaikovsky opera.
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  PUSHKIN PRIZE  Russianliterary prize established in 1881- Present  in honor of Alexander Pushkin one of Russia’s greatest writers.  Awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences to Russian authors (who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence)  Winners include : (Anton Chekov & Ivan Bunin)
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