6 posts tagged alexander pushkin

'I loved you once' by Alexander Pushkin I loved you once, nor can this heart be quiet; For it would seem that love still lingers there; But do not you be further troubled by it; I would in no wise hurt you, oh, my dear.

Fly, hide thyself from out my sight, Queen Venus, whom Cythera ringeth! Come, menace to ignoble might, Muse that of FREEDOM proudly singeth! Come, tear the roses from my brow, Break the Sweet lyre of passions tender: For I would sing – Freedom’s defender – Vice on the throne to vanquish now.

The Museum is situated at No. 12 Moika Embankment in St. Petersburg and was opened in 1925. The poet lived there from September 12,1836 till his death on, January 12, 1837. The sad news that Pushkin had been seriously wounded spread around the city at once. He died two days later.

Short Story Monday Before getting into this week's short story, I'd like to inform everyone of Kate's Short Story Reading Challenge. She has a lot of options available from simply reading 10 short stories to reading 10 collections of short stories over the span of a year.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was a figure in the Romantic Movement or Romanticism of the late 18th and early 19th century. Unlike the best known of the Romantics in western Europe like Byron, Keats, and Shelley who all died young, Pushkin lived in Tsarist Russia.

The Pushkin Medal medal has been awarded to 11 foreign citizens for their great contribution to the spread and study of the Russian language, the preservation of cultural heritage and the rapprochement and mutual enrichment of different nations’ and people’s cultures.