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National Pushkin Museum, embankment river Moyka, 12, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 191186
Pushkinskie Gory, Pskovskaya oblast', Russia, 181370
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Alexander
Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29
January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic
era[2]
who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet[3][4][5][6]
and the founder of modern Russian literature.[7][8]
Pushkin himself was not gay, but he was what we would call gay-friendly, confident enough to write to his gay friend Filipp Vigel about the relative merits of the latter's potential male bedmates. Pushkin's references to homosexuality are light and humorous, but not disapproving.
Pushkin[9] was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. A maternal great-grandfather was African-born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment, who, according to Pushkin, attempted to seduce the poet's wife, Natalia Pushkina.
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