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1799–1837
Alexander Pushkin, Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
Alexander Pushkin · 俄罗斯
1799–1837, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist, hailed as the father of modern Russian literature.
Born into a noble family in Moscow, he published his first poem at 15 and graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum; for political poems such as *Ode to Liberty* he was exiled in 1820, and in exile wrote *Boris Godunov* and the verse novel *Eugene Onegin* (serialised 1825–1832); in 1826 he was allowed to return to the capital, married in 1831, and in 1837, mortally wounded in a duel with d'Anthès, died two days later in Saint Petersburg, buried at Svyatogorsk Monastery.
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Places in their life
Born in Moscow; places of activity Saint Petersburg, Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin town), and the Mikhailovskoye estate.
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Cultural significance
By writing in colloquial Russian he laid down the literary language of modern Russian literature; *Eugene Onegin* is regarded as one of the source works of Russian literature.