Nowadays we read certain works of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in a completely different light from earlier interpretations. Never has the high school axiom ‘classical literature is always relevant’ ...

Nicholas I, a humourless and ruthless autocrat, had begun his reign by executing five aristocrats who had led the Decembrist uprising against him in 1825; another 120 conspirators were exiled to the ...

PUSHKIN, Russia — Twelve miles south of St. Petersburg, this town of about 110,000 is named for its most famous native son and the country’s great 19th-century poet, Aleksandr Pushkin. He also ...

From two 1824 letters by Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Kaznacheev. The first is in response to an assignment to investigate the extermination of locusts that Pushkin refused to undertake; the second ...

On February 8, 1837, in St. Petersburg, Georges d’Anthès fought a duel with Alexander Pushkin, whom he shot in the stomach. Pushkin died two days later on his sofa. So … what happened to the sofa?

In the red corner—the hero of the proletariat, Russia's most famous revolutionary, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His opponent—Russia's beloved, blue-blooded poet and bon vivant Alexander Pushkin sits ...

The Olympics may be over, but Harlem is still thinking of Russia, with love. The Harlem Opera Theater on Thursday will celebrate the works of famed author Alexander Pushkin, one of the most famous ...

TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...