Alexander Pushkin's profound quote, "A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths," explores the human ...

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of an essay on Pushkin that Edmund Wilson published in the Atlantic at a time (December, 1943) when one normally began by saying that Pushkin was a Russian poet.

On February 8, 1837, in St. Petersburg, Georges d’Anthès fought a duel with Alexander Pushkin, whom he shot in the stomach. Pushkin died two days later on his sofa. So … what happened to the sofa?

To me the publication of Yarmolinsky’s introduction and Babette Deutsch’s translations of Pushkin, on the occasion of his centenary, is a calamity both in literature and in our cultural relations with ...

Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at ...

TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...

Alexander Pushkin, whose fascination with sound led him to restore antique phonographs and radios, has died. He was 67. That interest also brought him employment as a weatherman, a disc jockey on a ...

It was only a century ago that Russia was the center of world literature. Writers streamed from all over the world to Yasnaya Polyana to bow before Tolstoy, like pilgrims to Jerusalem. And in Russia ...