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.

This astonishingly detailed life of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) reveals yet again the vast gulf that looms between the creative spirit and the personal life. Almost universally acknowledged as the ...

Academic T.J. Binyon has won Britain's richest nonfiction prize for his biography of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Binyon, 63, won the Samuel Johnson Prize, worth $48,000, for his book "Pushkin.

1. Imperial Russia -- 2. Childhood -- 3. School Days -- 4. Dissipations 1817-20 -- 5. To the South -- 6. Kishinev -- 7. Odessa: July 1823-July 1824 -- 8 ...

WE HAVE long entertained in the West certain notions about Russian literature — which have been shared by such critics as Virginia Woolf with the ordinary literary journalists. These assumptions may ...