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Alexander Pushkin was born into nineteenth-century czarist Russia at a time when the state and the church were supreme. The aristocracy was enamored of French culture and peasants were little more than slaves. The literati generally regarded the Russian language as ill fit for creative expression until Pushkin proved otherwise. His writing challenged the authority of the czar while his own wanton values gave rise to troubling guilt. Yet in his short and tumultuous lifetime, Pushkin rose to great

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Author

John Oliver Killens

Publisher

Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814320464

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14