English 102 Alexander Pushkin Alicia Rangel

1. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
B O R N : J U N E 6 , 1 7 9 9 , M O S C O W, R U S S I A
D E C E A S E D : F E B R UA R Y 1 0 , 1 8 3 7 , P E T E R S B U R G ,
R U S S I A
Author & Poet

2. EARLY LIFE
• Was of African descent
• Born into upper class literary family
• Actual mother took little interest in him, so had nurses/ French tutors
• Loved his nanny Arina Rodionovna, like mother figure more
• Entered an elite school called the Lyceum at age 12
• Began working in the foreign office of St. Petersburg, Russia
• (Where he had affairs with two married women)

3. MOSCOW, RUSSIA
• This museum, honoring the greatest poet in
Russian history
• Monument of Alexander Pushkin in front of the
Russian Museum

4. EDUCATION
 Entered the Lyceum in 1811 which was only open for the sons of 'select'
noblemen
 Graduated from the Lyceum in 1817
 Taught by the great poet Vasily Zhukovsky

5. WRITING STYLE
 Russian poet, novelist, playwright of the Romantic era
 Pushkin's work in short stories shows simplicity, versatility and clarity.
 In short stories showed satire, romance, and drama.
 Which later influenced Russian writers

6. INFLUENCES
 Byron
 Votlaire
 Goethe
 Schiller
 Shelley
 Keats
 Dante
INFLUENCEDAlexander Pushkin influenced almost all Russian literature.
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 Chenier
 Batyuskov
 Derzhavin
 Fonvizin
 Karamzin
 Zhukovsky
 Shakespeare

7. INFLUENCED
 Alexander Pushkin
influenced most of Russian
literature.
 Akhmatova
 Blok
 Hristo Botev
 Brodsky
 Bulgakov
 Bunin
 Chekhov
 Dostoevsky
 Gogol
& many more..

8. NATALYA GONCHAROVA
• Engaged for 3 years
• In love
• Settled on agreements
• Published Natalya Goncharova as a
wedding gift
• Finally married on 18 February1831 in
Moscow.

9. ACHIEVEMENTS
 Wrote his first published poem, To a Poet Friend at the age of 14
 Wrote Freedom in 1817, but wasn’t published until his death
 Ruslan and Ludmila, written in 1820 was first major poem
 Wrote several dramas including Boris Godunov in 1831
 Wrote his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in 1823-31 which later became a Tchaikovsky
opera.

10. PUSHKIN PRIZE
 Russian literary prize established in 1881- Present
 in honor of Alexander Pushkin one of Russia’s greatest writers.
 Awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences to Russian authors
(who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence)
 Winners include : (Anton Chekov & Ivan Bunin)

11. QUOTES

12. CITATIONS
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 . N.p.. Web. 29 Jun 2013. <http://712educators.about.com/blapushkin.htm>.
 "Lizok's Bookshelf." : Happy Birthday to “Наше всё" & Newish Translations. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 29 June 2013.
 "Prominent Russians: Aleksandr Pushkin." Aleksandr Pushkin – Russiapedia
Literature Prominent Russians. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 June 2013.
 "Monument to Alexander Pushkin on Ploshchad Iskusstv (Arts Square)."
Monument to Pushkin on Arts Square in St. Petersburg. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 June 2013.