Alexander Pushkin Research Paper

Alexander Pushkin

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|Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin |
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|Aleksandr Pushkin by Vasily Tropinin |
|Born |June 6, 1799(1799-06-06) |
| |Moscow, Russian Empire |
|Died |February 10, 1837 (aged 37) |
| |Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
|Occupation
After reading Gogol 's 1831–2 volume of short stories Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Pushkin would support him critically and later in 1836 after starting his magazine, The Contemporary, would feature some of Gogol 's most famous short stories. Later, Pushkin and his wife Natalya Goncharova, whom he married in 1831, became regulars of court society. When the Tsar gave Pushkin the lowest court title, the poet became enraged: he felt this occurred not only so that his wife, who had many admirers—including the Tsar himself—could properly attend court balls, but also to humiliate him. In 1837, falling into greater and greater debt amidst rumors that his wife had started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover (correction: man who insulted his wife), Georges d 'Anthès, to a duel which left both men injured, Pushkin mortally. He died two days
His poetic short drama "Mozart and Salieri" was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer 's Amadeus. Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin, which he wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus. "Onegin" is a work of such complexity that, while only about a hundred pages long, translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render its meaning in English. Because of this difficulty in translation, Pushkin 's verse remains largely unknown to English readers. Even so, Pushkin has profoundly influenced western writers like Henry