The presence of Pushkin

The Hudson Review;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...It's hard to say anything about Pushkin to people who know nothing about him. Pushkin is a great poet. Napoleon is not as great as Pushkin. And Bismarck is nothing next to Pushkin. And Alexander I, II, and III are soap bubbles in comparison with...

The poet of the people Russia honors literary giant Pushkin

The Boston Globe;  June 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ......contemporary politician, but of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's most celebrated poet. Ignoring...has shelled out $4 million to celebrate Pushkin's gala bicentennial birthday on Sunday...in Russia is more than just a poet, and Pushkin is the single greatest literary figure...

In Russia, Pushkin's poetry is everything

Charleston Gazette;  June 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Hospital No. 1 when the spirit of Alexander Pushkin blew in on a spring breeze. With television...part for the impending 200th birthday of Pushkin, a poet who is, in some ways, the most...suddenly transformed into Tatyana from Pushkin's epic poem, "Eugene Onegin." "You are...

The Power of Pushkin; 150 Years After His Death, Soviets Sing His Praises

The Washington Post;  February 10, 1987 ;     700+ words ...It was in 1837 that Alexander Pushkin ambled from his house here to a nearby...years. Commemorating the anniversary of Pushkin's death today and a century-and-a-half-o...Kapelle this evening. As a reminder of Pushkin's enduring literary status, the pomp is...

Russia's Don Juan darling.(Pushkin: A Biography )(Book Review)

The New Leader;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...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...store-fronts and kiosks were also plastered with posters: Pushkin in Moscow, Pushkin in love, Pushkin fighting for his wife...

Two Hundred Years of Pushkin

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Robert Reid and Joe Andrew, eds. Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. 3 Volumes. 'Pushkin's Secret': Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin, VoI 1; Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument, Vol 2; Pushkin's Legacy, Vol 3. Amsterdam...

Introducing the Byron of the steppes In Russia, he's a hero of...

Evening Standard - London;  June 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ......read a line by the author of the poem. Pushkin is revered to the point of idolatry in...Gorbachev, with an essay by the indefatigable Pushkin scholar John Bayley, is only now to appear...heroic endeavour, which should at last give Pushkin the public he deserves. The first thing...

The elusive poet of Russia; Russians of all stripes revere Pushkin, but...

The Christian Science Monitor;  October 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......regard as their greatest poet: Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837). Indeed, the closest that...non-Russian speakers have come to appreciating Pushkin may be through hearing the splendid music...Tchaikovsky composed for an opera based on Pushkin's most famous work, his verse novel Eugene...

Book reviews: Pushkin: A man of many guises, all of them Russian

Scotland on Sunday;  October 13, 2002 ;     548 words ...PUSHKIN TJ Binyon HarperCollins, GBP 30 IT IS difficult to explain the position held in Russian life today by Alexander Pushkin, who died in 1837. He is indeed venerated as Russia's greatest poet. But the response to Pushkin by Russians is more than that: it has in it something of...

The passions in Pushkin, THE INDEPENDENT

The Independent (Bangladesh);  July 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Independent (Bangladesh) 07-14-2000 Pushkin is one of the greatest of Russian poets...him. The realism so characteristic of Pushkin's writing is the key-note of Russian literature as a whole. As a poet Pushkin is untranslatable, the excellent beauty...

Pushkin's Parable of the Prodigal Daughter: The Evolution of the Prose...

Comparative Literature;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...SINCE THEIR PUBLICATION in 1831, Pushkin's The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich...of these tales would provoke a scandal, Pushkin suggested to his publisher P.A. Pletnev...first major collection of prose fiction, Pushkin clearly intended not only to stir up the...

A small man of great stature; Literary biography.('Pushkin: A Biography')

The Economist (US);  September 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ......true of persecuted poets like Aleksandr Pushkin who acquired almost divine status as martyrs...young age. When, as Russia's Shakespeare, Pushkin was co-opted after the revolution as an...of a political kind. The centenary of Pushkin's death in 1937 marked the zenith of his...

A troublesome life: Pushkin's biography and the reformulated aesthetics of...

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......every language there... Aleksandr Pushkin, "I Have Created a Monument to Myself" [la pamiatnik sebe vozdvig] Even Pushkin might have been surprised at how accurate...Russia had seen before. New editions of Pushkin's works were printed and widely distributed...

Russia swept by Pushkin mania

The Independent - London;  June 5, 1999 ;     631 words ......the country have been preparing for the Pushkin Day festivities, amid criticism that the...at least six street parties today. At Pushkin's grave, in a monastery near Pskov in...all the time," said Yelena Mukovnina, a Pushkin excursion organiser. She reads Pushkin...

Pushkin and the Dutch ambassador

Jerusalem Post;  June 18, 1999 ;     700+ words ...SHIMSHON ARAD Jerusalem Post 06-18-1999 PUSHKIN'S BUTTON by Serena Vitale. New York, Farrar...to die in a duel or to commit suicide? Pushkin and Lermontov perished in duels. That...account of the last year of the life of Pushkin, who was born 200 years ago on June 6...