Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Born into the Russian nobility in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo.
While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Pushkin was born in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich, a man of limited mind, more fond of the high life, like his brother poet Vasily L. (who had his house on Basmannaya and славившемуся an excellent cook Vlas, which he called Blaise; it died in Okhotny Ryad in the last cholera) 1, could not inspire a great attachment to himself in his son. Much more could have influence on the latest mother - Nadezhda Osipovna, a woman, is characterized by the mind. From the other members of the family have another brother of our poet, Lev Sergeevich, which is now in Odessa in the quarantine, the good fellow, it is extremely similar person to the late poet, and sister, Olga Sergeevna, to which Pushkin had a particular affection; she for Павлищевым, which is in Warsaw and several engaged in the literature. Pushkin lived in Moscow, but in summer went to the village of Zakhar'in, forty versts from Moscow, owned by relatives of Hope Enquete.
