CHAPTER I.
Sergeant of the guards.
My father, Andrej Petrovitch Grineff, after serving
in his youth under Count Muenich,[1] had retired in
17—­with the rank of senior major. Since
that...
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The Russian poet and prose writer Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) ranks as the country's greatest poet. He not only brought Russian poetry to its highest excellence but also had a decisive in...
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Aleksandr Pushkin continues to exert an enormous influence on Russian culture and literature more than a century and a half after his death. The impact he has made bears witness to the enormous scope ...
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The Daughter of the Commandant
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin