Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s favorite literary son, not ours, which hardly justifies the fact that his two-hundred-and-tenth anniversary—he was born in 1799 and died, in a duel, in 1837—has not ...

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 ...

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?

EADaily, November 15th, 2025. In Moldova, local political circles, following the example of Ukraine, are actively promoting ...

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 ...