Alexander Pushkin: Genius, Playboy, Father of Russian Literature

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Some people even say that he invented modern russian language! Alexander Pushkin is “our everything“ for many russian people. His name is the answer for the question “who is the best russian writer?“ for 90 percent of russians. Not Tolstoy, not Dostoevsky. A grand-grandson of a famous black Russian general Abram Gannibal was raised as a golden child and became a person who changed russian literature forever. His literature genius is widely recognized. But the personal life of Pushkin was very complicated and ambiguous. A notorious rebel and a decembrist or a state poet for Nicholas I? Hopeless romantic or a dirty womanizer? Linguistic genius or unoriginal copypaster? Are Evgeny Onegin (Eugene Onegin), The Captain’s Daughter, The Queen of Spades and Boris Godunov on the list of the great