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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) - the greatest Russian poet and prose writer. In domestic literature, Pushkin stands apart: "The Sun of our Poetry", according to the writer of Vl. Odoevsky was the first to laid the foundations of realism in Russian literature and so transformed the language that the works of the 19th century are read as modern.
Alexander Sergeyevich was born in Moscow, in the family of a military adviser, amateur poet, and a secular young lady, granddaughters of Hannibal (African Abram Hannibal was a servant and pupil of Peter I, and then a general), in an old noble none of a celebration.
He began to write poetry in the lyceum - a privileged educational institution for the children of the nobles, and at the age of 15, in an open exam, he made a splash, having read his "memories in Tsarskoye Selo" and earned the hot approval of the living classic - Gabriel Derzhavin.
Pushkin was not bypassed by glory during his lifetime: in the press he was called a genius and the “first Russian poet ", Emperor Nicholas I favored him, his every creation became an event