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Article: Russia's Don Juan darling.(Pushkin: A Biography )(Book Review)
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- The New Leader
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- September 1, 2003
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Pushkin: A Biography By T.J. Binyon Knopf. 768 pp. $35.00.
THE COUNTDOWN to Aleksandr Pushkin's 200th birthday, in 1999, began several months ahead of time with the kind of billboard campaign only the Moscow city government would muster. The poet's swarthy features, framed by his trademark sideburns, were stretched two stories high across the walls of construction sites and facades of government buildings. By order of the Mayor, store-fronts and kiosks were also plastered with posters: Pushkin in Moscow, Pushkin in love, Pushkin fighting for his wife's honor in the duel that killed him at the age of 37. His catchy verse was turned into jingles for spring water and ...