Alexander Pushkin

1799 – 1837 · died at about 38^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About Alexander Pushkin

• Alexander Pushkin's great-grandfather Abram Gannibal was an African boy kidnapped by the Ottomans, then freed by Peter the Great and raised at court as the emperor's godson.^[1][3][4]
• Pushkin, later called the father of Russian literature, spoke mostly French until age 10. He learned Russian from household serfs and his serf nanny, Arina Rodionovna.^[1]
• Pushkin's short verse drama Mozart and Salieri inspired Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.^[1][5][6]
• Tchaikovsky's operas Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, based on Pushkin, are perhaps better known outside Russia than Pushkin's own works.^[1][7][8]
• Eugene Onegin is only about a hundred pages long, but Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to render its meaning in English.^[1]
• In 1937 the town of Tsarskoye Selo, where Pushkin went to school, was renamed Pushkin in his honor.^[1]
• Alexander Pushkin was alive at the same time as Immanuel Kant — their lives overlapped for 5 years (1799–1804).^{[1][2][9][10]}
• Alexander Pushkin shares a birthday with Thomas Mann: both were born on June 6.^{[1][2][11][12]}

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.^[1]

Contemporaries

Hokusai

38 yr overlap

Jacob Grimm

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Michael Faraday

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Charles Babbage

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Niccolò Paganini

38 yr overlap

Mary Shelley

38 yr overlap

Carl Friedrich Gauss

38 yr overlap

Honoré de Balzac

38 yr overlap

Arthur Schopenhauer

38 yr overlap

Heinrich Heine

38 yr overlap

Andrew Jackson

38 yr overlap

John Quincy Adams

38 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Alexander Pushkin

When was Alexander Pushkin born?

Alexander Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799, and died on February 10, 1837.

How old was Alexander Pushkin at death?

Alexander Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799, and died on February 10, 1837, at age 37.

What was Alexander Pushkin known for?

Alexander Pushkin was known for: Father of Russian literature. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Pushkin?

Alexander Pushkin's closest contemporary was Hokusai. Their lives overlapped for 38 years.