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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S.
Aleksandr Pushkin was born in Moscow on Thursday 26 May 1799, in a "half-brick and half-wooden house" on a plot of land situated on the corner of Malaya.
Born into an aristocratic family, Pushkin began his literary career while still a student at the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo (later renamed Pushkin).

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Pushkin Press publishes novels, non-fiction, crime, children’s books, everything from timeless classics to contemporary literature, including some of the 20th century’s most acclaimed authors, such as Stefan Zweig. Publisher and Managing Director Adam Freudenheim joined Pushkin in May 2012. Born in Baltimore, Adam lived and studied in Germany and came to the UK in 1997.
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family in Vienna. His dramatic short stories and gripping biographies of major historical and literary figures, including Beware of Pity and The World of Yesterday, made him one of the world’s most popular writers. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London and New York, then settled in Brazil where he died in 1942.

RG: Pushkin Press publishes many modern classics in translation. When did you start to publish Stefan Zweig?

AF: Pushkin Press was founded in 1997, and Zweig’s works were among the first titles released in 1998. Pushkin founder Melissa Ulfane deserves all credit for her focus on Zweig from the start, a focus I’ve

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Pushkin

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet - a tragic genius who is revered by Russians as their Shakespeare and Mozart rolled into one. Born in Moscow, literary prodigy Pushkin was expelled from St. Petersburg at the age of twenty as a result of his satirical writings. He remained in internal exile, under the supervision of the Emperor, for the next seven years. Throughout his life he continued to excite official disapproval for his political and religious beliefs - and many love affairs. With his wild passions for gambling and women, Pushkin's brief life was as turbulent and dramatic as anything in his work. In 1828 he married society beauty, Natalya Goncharova, who then captivated the heart of a French cavalry officer. Enraged by this, Pushkin engaged in a duel with him, and died at the age of 37, defending his honour.

First published:: 2002
Published by:: HarperCollins
Length:: Hardcover 731 pages

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Did the Poet Alexander Pushkin Have African Roots?

The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is widely regarded as Russia’s greatest poet. While the Pushkin family was of Russian noble stock, Pushkin’s mother was of African descent. Her grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was a Black African servant and godson of Peter the Great who became a military engineer and was granted aristocratic privileges later in life. Read on to find out more about the Gannibal family and its links to Pushkin.

“The Moor of Peter the Great”

Throughout his reign, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia sought to modernize his country and increase Russia’s prestige on the international stage. While much of this involved the acquisition of new technology and expertise from Western Europe, Peter was also intent on emulating European courts.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Black African servants were regarded as a status symbol for European monarchies. Unlike Spain, France, or Britain, Russia did not have a ma