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 ...

On February 8, 1837, in St. Petersburg, Georges d’Anthès fought a duel with Alexander Pushkin, whom he shot in the stomach. Pushkin died two days later on his sofa. So … what happened to the sofa?

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 ...

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Alexander Pushkin in Russia is bigger than Shakespeare in England. Not only is he revered, he is read. Children memorize and recite his patriotic and seasons-of-the-year verses, adults savor and ...

The quote of the day comes from Alexander Pushkin, one of the most influential figures in Russian literature: “It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled ...

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 ...