Info For Yous Alexander Pushkin (6 June 1799 – Ten February 1837), The Dark Russian Who Developed Russian Literature Too Russia`S Greatest Poet

Alexander Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 Feb 1837)
Alexander Pushkin is unremarkably credited alongside developing Russian literature together with is considered past times many to go the greatest Russian poet. 

Pushkin was notoriously touchy most his award together with fought 29 duels. This may cause got been due to that fact that Pushkin’s Grand Father, Abram Petrovich Gannibal was an African perhaps from Eritrea. He was ransomed together with sent to Russian Federation at the asking of Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, the Grandfather of some other prominent Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Abram Petrovich Gannibal. initially, he was presented equally a gift to Peter the Great who came to abide by together with admire Gannibal equally a kid together with adopted him equally his son. As a result, Gannibal was raised equally a philosopher, scientist together with military machine general

 



Although the vast bulk of African Americans are unfamiliar alongside Pushkin's monumental works, most students of literature are at to the lowest degree aware of his "Blackamoor of Peter the Great," an unfinished romance which relates the biographical information of the poet's great-grandfather, Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal his dark great-grandfather.
Some early on critics wrongly suspected that Pushkin attempted to aggrandize the African lineage of this dark forebear past times playing upwards the household unit of measurement tradition that he was an Ethiopian princeling. However, Pushkin for certain did non need to embellish his ancestor's ain personal history. For the accomplishments of Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal are proof of what whatever human being - despite his coloring - could ascension to, given the opportunity. Ibrahim was treated equally no less than a fellow member of the violet household unit of measurement at courtroom and, inward the biographical notes on him written either past times his married adult woman or past times someone inward her household unit of measurement presently after his death, the next contestation is made:

"....he (Peter) wished to brand examples of them together with pose (Russians) to shame past times convincing them that out of every people together with fifty-fifty from amidst wild men - such equally Negores, whom our civilized nations assign exclusively to the degree of slave, in that place tin hit the axe go formed men who past times dint of application tin hit the axe obtain cognition together with learning together with so go helpful to their monarch."

To a divine rights monarch similar Peter whose human relationship to a acre of serfs was only paternalistic, a kid equally a personal gift or possession could only go regarded equally i of his ain kith together with kin. Indeed, at the eight-year one-time Ibrahim's baptism, the Emperor himself was his godfather, spell his godmother was the Queen of Poland.
 Although, equally nosotros right away realize, no Blackamoor at whatever 18th century European courtroom was only decorative, inward Ibrahim's case, Peter's expectations for him were equally loaded alongside responsibleness equally those he would cause got had for his ain son. If he was the Emperor whose patriotic duty it was to drag Russian Federation spiritually together with intellectually out of its Byzantine backwardness together with into the hereafter of the Enlightenment, together with so it would literally go Ibrahim's responsibleness to aid for his adopted country's physical formation together with his defense strength of it. In 1717 the immature blackamoor was sent to French Republic for an pedagogy inward both civil together with military machine engineering. He studied at the Ecole d'Artillerie of La Fere nether the bright Bernard Forest de Belidor together with afterwards, at the Ecole d'Artillerie of Metz, an establishment founded past times the illustrious Sebastien Le Preste, Marquis de Vauban. Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/pushkingenealogy.html

Pushkin descendants

Pushkin had 4 children from his union to Natalya: Maria (b. 1832, touted equally a epitome of Anna Karenina), Alexander (b. 1833), Grigory (b. 1835), together with Natalya (b. 1836) the final of whom married, morganatically, into the violet trouble solid of Nassau to Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau together with became the Countess of Merenberg.
Of Pushkin's children only the lines of Alexander together with Natalia continue. Natalia married Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, together with their grand-daughter, Nadejda, married into the British violet household unit of measurement (her hubby was the uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). The descendants of the poet right away alive exactly about the globe: inward Great Britain, Germany, Kingdom of Belgium together with the United States.

                                                       Portrait of Pushkin 1800-1802 past times Xavier de Maistre.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin the dark Russian was agency ahead of his fourth dimension together with produced contemporary plant such as:

Narrative Poems

• 1820 – Ruslan i Lyudmila (Руслан и Людмила); English linguistic communication translation: Ruslan together with Ludmila
• 1820–21 – Kavkazskiy plennik (Кавказский пленник); English linguistic communication translation: The Prisoner of the Caucasus
• 1821 – Gavriiliada (Гавриилиада) ; English linguistic communication translation: The Gabrieliad
• 1821–22 – Bratya razboyniki (Братья разбойники); English linguistic communication translation: The Robber Brothers
• 1823 – Bakhchisaraysky fontan (Бахчисарайский фонтан); English linguistic communication translation: The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
• 1824 – Tsygany (Цыганы); English linguistic communication translation: The Gypsies
• 1825 – Graf Nulin (Граф Нулин); English linguistic communication translation: Count Nulin
• 1829 – Poltava (Полтава); English translation: Poltava
• 1830 – Domik v Kolomne (Домик в Коломне); English translation: The Little House inward Kolomna
• 1833 – Andjelo (Анджело); English translation: Angelo
• 1833 – Medny vsadnik (Медный всадник); English linguistic communication translation: The Bronze Horseman

Verse novel

• 1825–32 – Yevgeny Onegin (Евгений Онегин); English linguistic communication translation: Eugene Onegin

Drama

• 1825 – Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов); English linguistic communication translation: Boris Godunov
• 1830 – Malenkie tragedii (Маленькие трагедии); English linguistic communication translation: The Little Tragedies
  • Kamenny gost (Каменный гость); English linguistic communication translation: The Stone Guest
  • Motsart i Salyeri (Моцарт и Сальери); English linguistic communication translation: Mozart together with Salieri
  • Skupoy rytsar (Скупой рыцарь); English linguistic communication translations: The Miserly Knight, The Covetous Knight
  • Pir vo vremya chumy (Пир во время чумы); English linguistic communication translation: A Feast inward Time of Plague

Prose

• 1828 – Arap Petra Velikogo (Арап Петра Великого); English linguistic communication translation: Peter the Great's Negro, unfinished novel
• 1831 – Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina (Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина); English linguistic communication translation: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
  • Vystrel (Выстрел); English linguistic communication translation: The Shot, brusk story
  • Metel (Метель); English linguistic communication translation: The Blizzard, brusk story
  • Grobovschik (Гробовщик); English linguistic communication translation: The Undertaker, brusk story
  • Stanzionny smotritel (Станционный смотритель); English linguistic communication translation: The Stationmaster, brusk story
  • Baryshnya-krestyanka (Барышня-крестьянка); English linguistic communication translation: The Squire's Daughter, brusk story
• 1834 – Pikovaya dama (Пиковая дама); English linguistic communication translation: The Queen of Spades, brusk story
• 1834 – Kirdzhali (Кирджали); English linguistic communication translation: Kirdzhali, brusk story
• 1834 – Istoriya Pugacheva (История Пугачева); English linguistic communication translation: A History of Pugachev, written report of the Pugachev's Rebellion
• 1836 – Kapitanskaya dochka (Капитанская дочка); English linguistic communication translation: The Captain's Daughter, novel
• 1836 – Puteshestvie v Arzrum (Путешествие в Арзрум); English linguistic communication translation: A Journey to Arzrum, move sketches
• 1836 – Roslavlev (Рославлев); English linguistic communication translation: Roslavlev, unfinished novel
• 1837 – Istoriya sela Goryuhina (История села Горюхина); English linguistic communication translation: The Story of the Village of Goryukhino, unfinished brusk story
• 1837 – Yegipetskie nochi (Египетские ночи); English linguistic communication translation: Egyptian Nights, unfinished brusk story
• 1841 – Dubrovsky (Дубровский); English linguistic communication translation: Dubrovsky, unfinished novel

Fairy Tales inward verse

   Statue of Pushkin together with his married adult woman Natalya on Arbat Street inward Moscow

• 1830 – Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде; English linguistic communication translation: The Tale of the Priest together with of His Workman Balda
• 1830 – Сказка о медведихе; English linguistic communication translation: The Tale of the Female Bear (was non finished)
• 1831 – Сказка о царе Салтане; English linguistic communication translation: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
• 1833 – Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке; English linguistic communication translation: The Tale of the Fisherman together with the Fish
• 1833 – Сказка о мертвой царевне; English linguistic communication translation: The Tale of the Dead Princess
• 1834 – Сказка о золотом петушке; English linguistic communication translation: The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
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