Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was born in Moscow into an old noble family; on his mother's side he descended from Abram Hannibal, a general of African origin and godson of Peter the Great. He published his first poem at fifteen. His verses, judged seditious, earned him in 1820 exile in the south of the empire, then confinement to the family estate of Mikhailovskoye; he was still there at the time of the uprising of December 1825. In 1826, Nicholas I allowed him to return to Moscow, under surveillance. He died as a result of a duel with Georges d'Anthès, a French officer whom he suspected of wanting to seduce his wife.

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