Ruslan and Ludmila

Poem A.S. Pushkin "Ruslan and Lyudmila" is the most romantic work of the great poet. Written almost two hundred years ago, she still delights readers with a wealth of content, bright, living characters, poetry of the language. The book also included the "Tale of the Golden Cockerel".
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow. His family in his father goes back to the Prussian native of Radshi, who entered Russia during the time of Alexander Nevsky. The ancestor of the mother was the Abyssinian prince Abram Petrovich Hannibal, the servant and pupil of Tsar Peter the Great.
In the grandmother"s village of Zakharov, Alexander observed folk holidays, round dances. His nanny Arina Rodionovna told fairy tales, introduced the proverbs, sayings. There was a huge library in the Pushkin’s house, and Alexander was carried away by Russian poetry.
In 1811, parents identified their son in the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. After the end of the lyceum, Pushkin entered the service of the College of Foreign Affairs with a college secretary, where, perhaps, he was only listed in the service. He attended theaters, joined the Green Lamp literary and theater community, made friends with members of the Decembrist societies, wrote political epigrams and poems, for which he was sent into exile in Chisinau, and then to Odessa. By this time, Pushkin had already published many of his works ("Caucasian captive", "Ruslan and Lyudmila," Bakhchisarai fountain ", poems) and realized: literature is his calling. He filed a request for a resignation and in 1824 left for the Mikhailovskoye parental estate, where he wrote the poem "Gypsies", the drama Boris Godunov ", the poem Poltava".
In 1830, Pushkin made an offer to the Moscow beauty Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova, after which he went to the Nizhny Novgorod estate of his father Boldino for the entry into the possession of the village of Kustenovo, donated by his father to the wedding. During this period, known as the Boldin Autumn, he wrote “Belkin’s Tale "," Little Tragedies ", the last chapters of Eugene Onegin," House in Kolomna "," Tale of the Priest and his employee of Balde". Pushkin married in 1831 In Natalia Goncharova and moved to the cottage in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1833, he was elected a member of the Russian Academy.
In the St. Petersburg large light, the Pushkin was in fashion, but they were poisonously gossiped about them. Especially hinted at courtship for Natalya Goncharova Kavallerd Lieutenant Baron Dantes. On January 27, 1837, a duel occurred between Pushkin and Dantes, on which the poet was mortally wounded. January 29, 1837 Pushkin died