Pushkin
[poo sh-kin; Russian poo-shkyin]
- A·le·xan·der Ser·ge·e·vich [al-ig-zan-der sur-gey-uh-vich, -zahn-; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr syir-gye-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ, -ˈzɑn-; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1799–1837, Russian poet, short-story writer, and dramatist.
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Contemporary Examples
When I see Oliona back at her flat she brings out a tome of Pushkin.
Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
By midnight, the streets around Pushkin Square were eerily empty, save for a sea of grey-uniformed Interior Ministry troops.
As Putin Wins Re-Election by Landslide, Both Sides Reluctantly RallyOwen Matthews, Anna Nemtsova
March 5, 2012
But I took the overnight train from Kiev and stumbled down Pushkin Street toward the city center.
Among the most famous of his dramatic fragments and vignettes is a series of “Anecdotes about Pushkin.”
Historical Examples
One ought to write poems like Pushkin's, or even like Dobrolubov's.
Virgin SoilIvan S. Turgenev
The old man led off the meal by saying that Pushkin was a magnificent poet.
Poor FolkFyodor Dostoyevsky
I will read it through, this volume of Pushkin, and tonight come to you.
Poor FolkFyodor Dostoyevsky
Pushkin's friends now looked upon him as a traitor to the cause of liberty.
MarieAlexander Pushkin
Shelley urged him as Byron urged Pushkin to emulation, not imitation.
Why we should readS. P. B. Mais
Pushkin1
- a town in NW Russia: site of the imperial summer residence and Catherine the Great's palace. Pop: 84 628 (2002)Former name: (1708–1937) Tsarskoye Selo
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Pushkin2
- Aleksander Sergeyevich (alɪkˈsandr sɪrˈɡjejɪvitʃ). 1799–1837, Russian poet, novelist, and dramatist. His works include the romantic verse tale The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1822), the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1833), the tragedy Boris Godunov (1825), and the novel The Captain's Daughter (1836)
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