1. Imperial Russia -- 2. Childhood -- 3. School Days -- 4. Dissipations 1817-20 -- 5. To the South -- 6. Kishinev -- 7. Odessa: July 1823-July 1824 -- 8 ...

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 ...

London? Academic T.J. Binyon has won Britain’s richest nonfiction prize for his biography of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Binyon, 63, won the Samuel Johnson Prize, worth $48,000, for his book ...

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of an essay on Pushkin that Edmund Wilson published in the Atlantic at a time (December, 1943) when one normally began by saying that Pushkin was a Russian poet.

Alexander Pushkin, whose fascination with sound led him to restore antique phonographs and radios, has died. He was 67. That interest also brought him employment as a weatherman, a disc jockey on a ...

On February 8, 1837, in St. Petersburg, Georges d’Anthès fought a duel with Alexander Pushkin, whom he shot in the stomach. Pushkin died two days later on his sofa. So … what happened to the sofa?