Alexander Pushkin was a legendary Russian writer. He came from a noble family.
Pushkin was a prolific writer. He left his mark on lyric poetry, narrative poetry, novel, short story, drama, and critical essay.
Pushkin was born in Moscow on June 6th, 1799. His first poem was printed at the age of fifteen. ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’, was his long poem published in 1820, which ran into controversy. The subject and style of this poem were debated.
His poem, ‘The Bronze Horseman’, was hailed by critics as a great work. So were ‘The Stone Guest’, and ‘Eugene Onegin’. His collections of short stories, ‘The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin’, were widely appreciated.
Pushkin is credited with the introduction of European literary genres to Russia. He also made quite a few European writers known to Russian readers. Pushkin brought natural conversation and borrowed elements from the literature of other lands to create modern poetic Russian.
Alexander Pushkin is regarded as the greatest Russian poet, and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin passed away in 1837.