NEW YORK — “Are you Russian?” the woman asked in a Russian accent, and when I said I wasn’t, she moved on to ask someone else. It was intermission at Jonathan Leaf’s ambitious new verse play “Pushkin, ...

It stated that the claimed designation included the name of the poet Alexander Pushkin. He was born in 1799 in Moscow. Russian philology considers Pushkin to be the father of modern literary Russian.

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 ...

MINSK, 5 June (BelTA) - Belarus and Russia will issue a joint postage stamp to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, BelTA learned from the ...

The greatness of Pushkin, by Prof. I. Luppol.--The life and death of the poet: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a biographical essay) by Prof. V. Kirpotin. The lonely Pushkin, by Prof. A.

RFE/RL has been declared an "undesirable organization" by the Russian government. If you are in Russia or the Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine and hold a Russian passport or are a stateless person ...