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?

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.

Three remote estates in Pskov Region aren’t your obvious tourist destinations but we bet you won’t regret a single minute spent in this picturesque area. Alexander Pushkin may not be as popular ...

Two great obstacles confront the non-Russian speaking reader when reading Pushkin. The first, famously, concerns his language. Many is the reader who, after reading a few of his more Byronic poems, or ...

Pushkin received many biting remarks from his contemporaries, but he answered them with a lot of wit. Critics and enviers never had mercy on writers. Today, we consider Alexander Pushkin to be one of ...

One of the facsimiles left in place of an original 1822 edition of Alexander Pushkin at the Warsaw University Library, from which nearly seventy rare Russian books were stolen in 2023. WOJTEK ...