Saturday, February 22, 2025

OBSCURE POET

 


ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (1799-1837)

Russia's most famous poet

Poet, playwright, novelist

From a family of nobility


Exiled (1820-1823) for outspoken political views 

Evgeny Onegin (Eugene Onegin) his masterpiece published in 1833

Invented iambic tetrameter with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes

Life marked by political and romantic scandals


Died in 1837 two days after losing a duel 

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