Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Who is Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (English: ; Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn] (listen); 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. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family. His maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman of Cameroonian origin who was adopted and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and...
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems
- To... (kern)
I still recall the wondrous moment
When you appeared before my eyes,
Just like a fleeting apparition,
Just like pure beauty's distillation.
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- I Love Thee
I loved thee; and perchance until this moment
Within my breast is smouldering still the fire!
Yet I would spare thy pain the least renewal,
Nothing shall rouse again the old desire!
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- On Count Voronstov
One half Milord, one half in trade,
One half a sage, one half a dunce,
One half a crook, but here for once
There's every hope he'll make the grade....
- Tempest
You saw perched on a cliff a maid,
Her raiment white above the breakers,
When the mad sea reared up and played
Its whips of spray on coastal acres
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- The Bakchesarian Fountain
A TALE OF THE TAURIDE.
Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye,
As though some spell in sorrow bound him,
His slavish courtiers thronging nigh,
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- Jenifershamalla: “alexander sergeyevich pushkin was a russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the romantic era.
he is considered by many to be the greatest russian poet and the founder of modern russian literature. “
- Mmatalpur: i am sharing these poems for people to see how spirits of people facing oppression remain undaunted and unbowed though the aim of keeping them in jail is to break their spirits.
the pashtun friend abroad sent this:
in deep siberian mines... by alexander sergeyevich pushkin
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- Medi050505: poem by alexander sergeyevich pushkin written in 1829. translation by babette deutsch:
“i loved you; and perhaps i love you still,
the flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet. it burns so quietly within my soul,
no longer should you feel distressed by it. 1/2
- Vladimirpuzyre1: on seashore far a green oak towers…
on seashore far a green oak towers,
and to it with a gold chain bound,
a learned cat whiles away the hours
by walking slowly round and round.
alexander sergeyevich pushkin (1799-1837)
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