RUSSIA Bronze Medal ,Jeton A.S. PUSHKIN 100 Years of Birth May 26, 1899 (627)

RUSSIA

Bronze Medal ,Jeton A.S. PUSHKIN

Anniversary 100 Years of Birth

May 26,1899

26mm with Loop

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin  Russian:
Александр Сергеевич Пушкин 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29
January 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

 He is considered by many to be the
greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.



Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich
Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family. His maternal great-grandfather was
Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman of African origin who was
kidnapped from his homeland and raised in the Emperor's court household as his
godson.



He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the
literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo
Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycée, Pushkin recited his controversial poem
"Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his exile by Emperor Alexander I.
While under the strict surveillance of the Emperor's political police and unable
to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His
novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.



Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his wife's alleged lover and her
sister's husband Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, also known as
Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment.

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