ALEXANDER PUSHKIN WRITER XVIII CENTURY
ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Was born 26 May (6 June 6, New Style) 1799, Moscow. He was a Russian poet, novelist, dramatist and writer of short stories.
PUSHKIN’S PARENTS • Father – Pushkin Sergey Lvovich • Mother – Pushkina Nadezhda Igorevna
SOME FACTS ABOUT PUSHKIN’S ANCESTOR • Pushkin's father came from an old aristocratic family. On his mother's side Pushkin had African ancestors. His greatgrandfather Abram Gannibal was an Abyssinian who was living in a palace of the Turkish sultan in Istanbul.
PRIMARY EDUCATION In 1811, Pushkin went to the Tsarskoselsky Lyceum.
THE FIRST STEPS IN LITERATURE • In the Lyceum period Pushkin was created a lot of poetry. It inspired the French poets of the XVII-XVIII: • Voltaire; • Parny.
JOB • In 1817, Pushkin got a job in the foreign office at St. Petersburg. • Pushkin wrote some political poems.
EXILE • He had to spend six years in exile in the south of the country: in the Caucasus and the Crimea.
LITERARY CREATION IN EXILE In exile he wrote: • about his experiences in the south in several romantic narrative poems • He started work on a novel in verse called Yevgeny Onegin (or Eugene Onegin).
RETURN FROM EXILE • After the revolt in 1825 the new tsar Nicholas I realized that Pushkin was by now very famous.
THE MOST IMPORTANT PROSE • • • “Eugene Onegin“ "Ruslan and Lyudmila"; "The tale of the Golden Cockerel"; Alexander Radishchev; "Winter morning"; "Captain's daughter"; "Dubrovsky"; "The History Of Pugachev"; "Boris Godunov"; "The tale of the dead Princess and the seven knights".
MARRIAGE • He married in 1831 a N. N. Goncharova
DEATH • In 1837, Pushkin was killed in a duel.
PUSHKIN’S ACHIEVEMENTS • The Russian language today would be very different if it had not been for Pushkin. His works were a great influence on later writers like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov and Leo Tolstoy.
LIST OF REFERENCE • http: //simple. wikipedia. org/wiki/Pushkin
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