To me the publication of Yarmolinsky’s introduction and Babette Deutsch’s translations of Pushkin, on the occasion of his centenary, is a calamity both in literature and in our cultural relations with ...

The wife of his boss, a neighbor, a young beauty… Alexander Pushkin went down in history, not just as a poetic genius, but also as a great lover and seducer of women, with a very long ‘Don Juan list’.

Opera tells how radical killed in a duel with his wife’s suspected lover transformed Russia’s literary language From Eugene Onegin to Boris Godunov, the works of the great Romantic poet Alexander ...

If you only know Pushkin by way of Tchaikovsky -- which isn't a bad way to know Pushkin -- a new translation of his distinctive fiction will give you a fuller sense of why he's considered the original ...

TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...

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 ...

It was only a century ago that Russia was the center of world literature. Writers streamed from all over the world to Yasnaya Polyana to bow before Tolstoy, like pilgrims to Jerusalem. And in Russia ...