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Aleksandr Pushkin
(Born 1799, Died 1837)(Translations from Russian)
Aleksandr Pushkin is, by common agreement -- at least among his own compatriots --
the greatest of all Russian writers. The major part of his lyrical poetry was written
between 1820 and 1830, but some of his poetical masterpieces were composed in the last seven
years of his life, when he was turning his attention to prose. A development can be traced
from the sparkling ebullience of his early verse -- the crowning achievement of which is
the first chapter of Evgeny Onegin, written in 1823 -- to the concetrated expressiveness
and restrained power of his later poetry. By effecting a new synthesis between the three main
ingredients of the Russian literary idiom -- the Church Slovanic, the Western European
borrowings, and the spoken vernacular -- Pushkin created the language of modern Russian
poetry. His personal life was made difficult by his conflicts with the authorities who
disapproved of his liberal views. He was killed in a duel.
From "The Heritage of Russian Verse," by Dimitri Obolensky
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