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It also notes that Gannibal is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet. Dieudonné Gnammankou, whose research into Gannibal's background was largely responsible for the ceremony at La Fère taking place, also served as the main speaker at a symposium following the event. [7]
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Museum-reserve of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "Boldino" is a large Russian literary museum reserve, located in the complex of buildings of the family estate of Pushkin in the village of Bolshoye Boldino of the Nizhny Novgorod region, which is associated with one of the most fruitful periods of the poet's work, the "Boldino autumn" (September–November 1830).
Adam Mickiewicz published the reply poem Do przyjaciół Moskali ("To Friends Moskals", at the end of part 3 of the cycle Dziady [14]), where he accused Pushkin of betrayal of their formerly common ideals of freedom, as expressed by the Decembrists. Pushkin started writing a reply, He Lived Among Us, published only posthumously. [15]
Sophie's maternal grandfather was the renowned poet-author Alexander Pushkin; through him, she had black African ancestry (one part in 32) as a direct descendant of Peter the Great's protégé, Abram Petrovich Gannibal. The grand duke met Sophie when he saved her from a horse that had run away with her.