Pushkin
Speech parts
1. Pushkin - Noun
2. Pushkin - Proper noun
Meaning
Russian poet (1799-1837)
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After going through a number of name-changes, particularly in the transition to the Soviet-era and the return of the Russian capital to Moscow, the museum was finally renamed to honour the memory of Pushkin in 1937, the 100th anniversary of his death.
Although it was ostensibly based on a verse fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin written in 1834, the authorities quickly realised its true target and immediately banned it from performance.
At such a moment, he continued indignantly, one was bound to recall the funeral of Pushkin and the Tsar's courtiers – their miserable hypocrisy and false pride.
Death By 1837, Pushkin was falling into greater and greater debt and faced scandalous rumors that his wife had embarked on a love affair.
Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy were among its members.
"A writer has died," he began, "who, together with Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, forms part of the glory of Russian literature.