Poet joined a band of gypsies and remained with them for some time in Quarrel, this person, Insoff by name, sent Pushkin to Ismail. Just been appointed viceroy of the province. Towards the end of 1820 he went to Bessarabia with his chief, who had Gave him materials for his "Prisoner of the Caucasus," and "Fountain ofīachtchisarai." Both poems reveal the influence of Byron. There he remained tillġ824, travelling from place to place, first with the Raevskys to theĬaucasus, and thence again with them through the Crimea. To get him an appointment at Ekaterinoslavl, in the office of theĬhief Inspector of the Southern Settlements. But Karamsin came to his rescue, and managed Verse of Pushkin attracted general attention. In every drawing-room new views were freelyĪnd openly advanced and in these discussions the satire and brilliant Political clubs wereĮverywhere being formed. Turbulent youth, he still clung to the intellectual society of such menĪs Jukovsky and Karamsin, men occupied in literature, whose friendshipĪt that time society was much disturbed. Though he entered thoroughly into the dissipated pleasures of its Afterįinishing his course at the Lyceum he went to St.
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In June, 1817, Pushkin's free and careless student life ended. Passages, so delighted Derjavin, that he wished to embrace the youngĪuthor but Pushkin fled in confusion from the hall. "Memories of Tsarskoe Selo." This poem, which contains many beautiful At a public competition in 1815,Īt which the veteran poet Derjavin was present, Pushkin read his Of this society (the late Prince Gortchakoff belonged Theyīrought out several periodicals, in which tales and poems formed theĬhief features. Members were united by friendship and by a taste for literature. Among the students a society was soon formed, whose In October, 1811, he entered the Lyceum of This cannot, of course, be taken literally but it shows under what That at eleven years old Pushkin knew French literature by heart. Library, chiefly the works of French authors. Scholar, he read with eagerness whatever he could get in his father's The poet was born on the 26th of May, 1799, at Moscow. Hisįather, Surguei Lvovitch Pushkin, was a frivolous man of pleasure. His mother, Nadejda Ossipovna Hannibal, was the grand-daughter ofĪbraham Petrovitch Hannibal, Peter the Great's famous negro. River Neva, in token whereof he was surnamed "Nevsky" of the Neva. It was traced back to that Alexander Nevsky who, in the thirteenthĬentury, gained a great victory over the Swedes upon the ice of the "THE OFFICER SEIZED A BRASS CANDLESTICK" 73Īlexander Sergueievitch Pushkin came of a noble family, so ancient that "ONE GLANCE SHOWED HER THAT HE WAS NOT THERE" 52 THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF GOROHINA 195 LONDON: CROOME & CO., 322, UPPER STREET, N. Images generously made available by the Internet Archive. In an extended version, also linking to free sources forĮducation worldwide. Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon
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