Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: ?????????? ?????????? ??????? {{Audio|ru-Pushkin.ogg|listen}}) (June 6 (May 26, O.S.), 1799 - February 10 (January 29, O.S.), 1837) was a Russian author whom many consider the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.

References

• Elaine Feinstein (ed.): After Pushkin: versions of the poems of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by contemporary poets. Manchester: Carcanet Prees; London: Folio Society, 1999 ISBN 1-57544-44-7
• Serena Vitale: Pushkin's button; transl. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998 ISBN 0-374-23995-5