Alexander Pushkin

Eugene Onegin — founder of Russian literature

The founder of modern Russian literature. Eugene Onegin — a novel in verse of inexhaustible wit and melancholy — created the template for the Russian novel. Every Russian writer who followed, from Gogol to Chekhov, wrote in the language Pushkin made. Killed in a duel at 37.

Key works

• Eugene Onegin1833— A novel in verse — the encyclopedia of Russian life
• Boris Godunov1825— Russian historical drama — set by Mussorgsky
• The Bronze Horseman1833— Peter the Great and the flood — the Russian state as fate

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