enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Abram Petrovich Gannibal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal

    Alexander Pushkin used his great-grandfather Abram Gannibal as the model for Ibrahim, the lead character in his unfinished novel The Moor of Peter the Great. After leaving school in 1817, Pushkin met Abram's last surviving son, Peter. He met Peter again in 1825, after writing in his diary about wanting to "get from him some memoirs about my ...

  3. Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin

    Ossip Abramovich Gannibal's father, Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), an African page kidnapped and taken to Constantinople as a gift for the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. Abram wrote in a letter to Empress Elizabeth, Peter the Great's daughter, that Gannibal ...

  4. Afro-Russians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russians

    Abram Gannibal (1696–1781) – statesman, military leader, and politician, great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin. Ivan Gannibal (1735–1801) – military leader, the son of Abram Gannibal. [9] Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) - was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

  5. Ivan Gannibal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Gannibal

    Ivan Abramovich Gannibal (Russian: Иван Абрамович Ганнибал; 5 June 1735 – 12 October 1801) was a Russian military leader.He was the son of military commander, general and engineer Abram Petrovich Gannibal, as well as the great-uncle of Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin.

  6. Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhaylovskoye_Museum_Reserve

    The Pushkin estate in Mikhaylovskoye. Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve (Russian: Музей-заповедник Михайловское, officially The State museum-reserve of Alexander Pushkin «Mikhailovskoye») is a museum reserve complex dedicated to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, the founder of modern Russian literature.

  7. The Moor of Peter the Great - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moor_of_Peter_the_Great

    The Moor of Peter the Great (Russian: Арап Петра Великого, romanized: Arap Petra Velikogo, also translated as The Blackamoor of Peter the Great or The Negro of Peter the Great) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexander Pushkin. Written in 1827–1828 and first published in 1837, the novel is the first prose work of the ...

  8. 15 Celebrities Who Became Grandparents Before Age 55 - AOL

    www.aol.com/15-celebrities-became-grandparents...

    The rockstar also became a great-grandfather when Assisi had her first baby, Ezra, with her boyfriend Alex Key. Brett Favre Brittany later had two more sons, Alexander "AJ" James and Oscar, with ...

  9. List of Russian people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_people

    Aleksey Arakcheyev, Minister of War of Alexander I, organized military-agricultural colonies Vasily Golitsyn; Abram Gannibal, general and military engineer of Black African origin, governor of Reval, the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin and hero of his novel The Moor of Peter the Great