- Russki proverb
RUSSIAN OF THE WEEK
Alexander Pushkin
A very well known Russian by even Western standards, this dashing young lad is something of a Slavic Shakespeare. Renound in his home country as the founder of modern Russian literature and as the greatest Russki poet he is also well known by thespian anglos as a great contributer to the Romantic era. Not only a literary genius, Pushkin was very devoted to his radical cause and social reform which earned him an exile to the Crimea, from where he travelled to Greece and jained a secret organization designed to overthrow the Ottoman rule.
He died two days after losing a duel to his wife's estranged lover, by mortal wounds. Very much the tortured artist, Alexander Pushkin is our Russian of the Week!
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