Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
Aleksander Pushkin’s father was of the nobility. His mother had Abyssinian
blood, and was descended from Hannibal, the Negro servant of Peter the
Great. He lived in St Petersburgh and became an official in the Ministry of
Affairs but was effectively banished to the Crimea before he was twenty-one.
He eventually returned, and in 1831 married Natalia Goncharova. He was
subsequently killed in a duel. Russia’s greatest poet, he is, in some respects,
Russia’s Byron, a great lyric poet whose Eugene Onegin nevertheless fulfils
the same role of the ‘superfluous’ man as the narrator of Byron’s Don Juan.
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