Pushkin was educated at the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo. His first major work, Ruslan and Lyudmila (1820), a romantic poem brought him moderate fame. However, his political writings angered the authorities and he was exiled first to Yekaterinoslav and later the Crimea. While in exile, Pushkin, impressed and influenced by the works of Byron, introduced romanticism into his work. He published A Prisoner in the Caucasus (1822) and The Robber Brothers (1827). In 1833, he published his most important work in Yevgeny Onegin. Pushkin was transferred to Odessa, but once again his outspoken views resulted in his exile to Mikhaylovskoye. There he completed his historical tragedy, Boris Gudunov (1831). He was finally allowed to return from exile in 1826. The Tales of Belkin (1830), The Queen of Spades (1834) and The Captain's Daughter (1836) (aka The Daughter of the Commandant) are probably his best-known prose works. Pushkin was commissioned to write the biography of Peter the Great, but was killed in a duel before this could be completed. Today, Pushkin is regarded as the national poet of Russia and the founder of modern Russian literature. |
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