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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