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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Biography

(1799 - 1837)

Related Works

Poetry
1815 The Cossack
1820 Ruslan and Lyudmila

1822 The Prisoner of the Caucasus
1824 The Gypsies
1824 The Fountain of Bakchisaray
1825 The Bridegroom
1825 Count Nulin
1826 Stanzas
1827 The Robber Brothers
1828 Poltava
1832 The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1833 A Small House in Kolomna
1833 The Bronze Horseman
1834 The Tale of The Dead Princess
1835 The Tale of the Fisherman and The Fish
1835 The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
Novels
1828 Eugene Onegin
1826 The Captain's Daughter
1832–33 Dubrovksy
1837 The Negro of Peter the Great
1837 Egyptian Nights
Plays
1922–30 Little Tragedies
1824-25 Boris Godunov
1831 Mozart and Salieri
1831 Rusalka
1832 Feast in Time of The Plague
1835 Scenes from the Age of Chivalry
1836 The Covetous Knight
1839 The Stone Guest
Stories
1830 Tales of the Late I P Belkin
1834 The Queen of Spades
Other
1833 A Journey to Erzurum

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(born June 6, 1799, Moscow, Russia—died Feb. 10, 1837, St. Petersburg) Russian writer. Born into an aristocratic family, Pushkin began his literary career while still a student at the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo (later renamed Pushkin). His first major work was the romantic poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820). With his political verses and epigrams, he became associated with a revolutionary movement that culminated in the unsuccessful Decembrist revolt of 1825. Banished to several provincial locations, he produced a cycle of romantic narrative poems that confirmed him as the leading Russian poet of the day and the leader of the Romantic generation of the 1820s. He also worked on his important historical tragedy, Boris Godunov (1831), and his central masterpiece, the novel in verse Eugene Onegin (1833). After Nicholas I allowed him to return to Moscow in 1826, Pushkin abandoned his revolutionary sentiments, turning to the figure of Peter the Great in poems such as The Bronze Horseman (1837). Other works from this period include the classic short story “The Queen of Spades” (1834) and the drama The Stone Guest (1839). In his late works the motif of peasant rebellion is prominent. The object of suspicion in court circles, he died at age 37 after being forced into a duel. He is often considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.