Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 to an old but impoverished noble family, with African ancestry through his great-grandfather Abram Gannibal, an enslaved boy who became a general under Peter the Great. He began writing poetry as a teenager at the Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo and was already famous by his early twenties, when his politically provocative verse earned him exile to southern Russia and then to his family's estate. These years of enforced isolation proved creatively fertile, producing the bulk of Eugene Onegin along with many of his finest lyrics and narrative poems. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Eugene Onegin.