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.

Works

• Ruslan i Lyudmila Ruslan and Lyudmila (1820) (poem)
• Kavkazskiy Plennik The Captive of the Caucasus (1822) (poem)
• Bakhchisarayskiy Fontan The Fountain of Bahçisaray (1824) (poem)
• Tsygany Gypsies (1827)
• Poltava (1829)
• Little Tragedies (including Kamenny Gost' "The Stone Guest", Motsart i Salieri "Mozart and Salieri", "The Miserly Knight, and "A Feast During the Plague") (1830)
• Boris Godunov (1825; publ. 1831; officially approved for perf. 1866) (drama)
• Stories of Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831) (prose)
• The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1831) (poem)
• The Tale of the Golden Rooster (1834)
• The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (1835)
• Yevgeniy Onegin Eugene Onegin (1825-1832) (verse novel)
• Mednyy Vsadnik The Bronze Horseman (1833) (poem)
• Pikovaya Dama The Queen of Spades (1833)
• The History of Pugachev's Riot (1834) (prose non-fiction)
• Kapitanskaya Dochka The Captain's Daughter (1836) (prose) a romanticized historical novel of "Pugachevshchina," the life and times of Pugachev.
• Kirdzhali Kircali (short story)
• Gavriiliada