Quote of the Day by Alexander Pushkin: 'A deception that elevates us is…'—Inspiring quotes by the famous Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era

Alexander Pushkin's profound quote, "A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths," explores the human ...

Putin goes after books — even the classics — and their publishers

With a strained economy and stalemate in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues ratcheting up internal ...
Tampa Bay Times

Poet Pushkin is Russia's "everything'

In Russia, a country rich with writers, one literary figure towers above the rest _ above Dostoevsky, above Chekhov, above Tolstoy. These days, he literally towers. His picture is draped from the top ...
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Belarus, Russia to issue stamp to celebrate Alexander Pushkin

MINSK, 5 June (BelTA) - Belarus and Russia will issue a joint postage stamp to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, BelTA learned from the ...
Time

Books: Great Performance

EUGENE ONEGIN by Alexander Pushkin. Translated from the Russian with a commentary by Vladimir Nabokov. 4 vols. 1,850 pages. Pantheon. $18.50. Educated Russians of the pre-Communist era could be ...
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Adam Mickiewicz and the Beginnings of the ‘Petersburg Text’ of Russian Literature

Alexander Pushkin’s fantastical epic The Bronze Horseman marked a whole new epoch in Russian literature, ushering in a ...