Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
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By midnight, the streets around Pushkin Square were eerily empty, save for a sea of grey-uniformed Interior Ministry troops.
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But I took the overnight train from Kiev and stumbled down Pushkin Street toward the city center.
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Among the most famous of his dramatic fragments and vignettes is a series of “Anecdotes about Pushkin.”
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Pushkin used to say that the Northern summer was a caricature of the Southern winter.
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In 1880 a monument to Pushkin was unveiled, and the greatest Russian authors were invited to speak at the ceremony.
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Pushkin had not the power of conceiving and executing a drama which should move round one idea to an inevitable close.
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Pushkin could not possibly arrive at the scene of action on December 26th.
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Pushkin is the snake, lying hid in the grass, who is endowed with the note of the nightingale!'
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British Dictionary definitions for Pushkin (1 of 2)
Pushkin1
/ (ˈpʊʃkɪn) /
noun
a town in NW Russia: site of the imperial summer residence and Catherine the Great's palace. Pop: 84 628 (2002)Former name: (1708–1937)Tsarskoye Selo
British Dictionary definitions for Pushkin (2 of 2)
Pushkin2
/ (ˈpʊʃkɪn) /
noun
Aleksander Sergeyevich (alɪkˈsandr sɪrˈɡjejɪvitʃ). 1799–1837, Russian poet, novelist, and dramatist. His works include the romantic verse tale The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1822), the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1833), the tragedy Boris Godunov (1825), and the novel The Captain's Daughter (1836)