In Russia, a country rich with writers, one literary figure towers above the rest _ above Dostoevsky, above Chekhov, above Tolstoy. These days, he literally towers. His picture is draped from the top ...

If you only know Pushkin by way of Tchaikovsky -- which isn't a bad way to know Pushkin -- a new translation of his distinctive fiction will give you a fuller sense of why he's considered the original ...

Russian Language Journal / Русский язык, Vol. 53, No. 174/176, Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of A. S. Pushkin (Winter-Spring-Fall 1999), pp. 398-416 (19 pages) ...

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.

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 ...

Pushkin’s poetry is capable of not only helping humanity overcome its values crisis, it might even be able to lend a hand in saving us from global warming. —Julian Henry Lowenfeld1 Well-known English ...

If you have not yet read The Queen of Spades, a short story, read it before this commentary ruins its suspense. The author, Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), an African-Russian poet and writer, is the ...

This is the fifth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. On my last full day in Moscow I planned to spend the morning with Alexander ...

We invite you to an evening where poetry and music intertwine in a seamless dialogue — a journey across centuries & continents. In the intimate acoustic of the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, ...

MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. According to results of a nationwide vote that ended on Tuesday, Moscow’s two major airports, Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, will be named after 19th century poet Alexander ...