Alexander Pushkin
Ana Lilia Aguirre
Mr. Ochoa
English IV
January 13, 2015
Alexander Pushkin: Russia 's Greatest Poet “It 's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveler resting for the night at wayside inn.” (Pushkin XLIX). Alexander Pushkin is consider one of the best Russian authors of the Romantic era. Pushkin was committed to social reform becoming a spokesman of literary radicals, what angered the government leading to his transfer from the capital in 1820. Pushkin is recognized by many as Russia 's greatest poet and the father of modern Russian Literature. Alexander Pushkin was born into an aristocratic family with a long and distinguished lineage in June 6, 1799, Russia Moscow. Pushkin 's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century. Pushkin 's mother Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836) was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. First educated by French and Russian tutors at home, his nurse also entertained him with traditional Russian folk tales. When he was 11, he attended an exclusive school for the nobility in Tsarskoe Selo, outside the capital city, St. Petersburg. He wrote and published his first poem at the age of fifteen. While still a student at the Lyceum. Pushkin wrote poetry that drew the acclaim of his teachers and peers. Around 1819-20, he fell under the spell of Byron 's work, and he wrote a series of narrative poems that reflect this influence; exotic Southern settings, and tragic romantic encounters, between others. He was soon writing his own poems and the journal The Messenger of Europe, published some of them as early as 1814, when he was fifteen years old. By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial
Mr. Ochoa
English IV
January 13, 2015
Alexander Pushkin: Russia 's Greatest Poet “It 's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveler resting for the night at wayside inn.” (Pushkin XLIX). Alexander Pushkin is consider one of the best Russian authors of the Romantic era. Pushkin was committed to social reform becoming a spokesman of literary radicals, what angered the government leading to his transfer from the capital in 1820. Pushkin is recognized by many as Russia 's greatest poet and the father of modern Russian Literature. Alexander Pushkin was born into an aristocratic family with a long and distinguished lineage in June 6, 1799, Russia Moscow. Pushkin 's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century. Pushkin 's mother Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836) was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. First educated by French and Russian tutors at home, his nurse also entertained him with traditional Russian folk tales. When he was 11, he attended an exclusive school for the nobility in Tsarskoe Selo, outside the capital city, St. Petersburg. He wrote and published his first poem at the age of fifteen. While still a student at the Lyceum. Pushkin wrote poetry that drew the acclaim of his teachers and peers. Around 1819-20, he fell under the spell of Byron 's work, and he wrote a series of narrative poems that reflect this influence; exotic Southern settings, and tragic romantic encounters, between others. He was soon writing his own poems and the journal The Messenger of Europe, published some of them as early as 1814, when he was fifteen years old. By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial
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