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Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century. [11] Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility .
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 ...
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.
The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Russian: Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть, romanized: Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest) is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.
Abram Petrovich [a] Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov (Russian: Абра́м Петро́вич Ганниба́л; c. 1696 – 14 May 1781 [1]), was a Russian Chief Military Engineer, General-in-Chief, and nobleman of African origin.
The Blizzard" (or The Snow Storm) (Russian: Мете́ль, Metél' ) is the second of five short stories that constitute The Belkin Tales by Alexander Pushkin. The manuscript for the story was originally completed October 20, 1830.
Mikhail Nesterov.The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights. 1889. The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (Russian: «Сказка о мёртвой царевне и о семи богатырях», romanized: Skazka o myortvoy tsarevne i o semi bogatyryakh, literally: "The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Bogatyrs") is an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin ...
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Russian: Кавка́зский пле́нник Kavkázskiy plénnik), [a] also translated as Captive of the Caucasus, is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1820–21 and published in 1822.