Pushkin
Eugene Onegin author
Pushkin refers to Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russia's national poet and founder of modern Russian literature.
His works—including the novel in verse *Eugene Onegin* and the drama *Boris Godunov*—established the literary language still used today.
Russians revere him as Shakespeare is revered in English: Every Russian schoolchild memorizes Pushkin.
The name also designates places named after him, including a town near St.
Petersburg.
Prearranged one-on-one combat
- fatalCausing death or ruin
- pistolCompact one-handed firearm
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
Natalya · scandal · wound · thirty-seven · mortality · martyrdom · legend · grief
Russia's capital city
- St. PetersburgRussian Baltic port city
- TsarRussian imperial title
- Dostoevsky19th-century Russian author
- ChekhovRussian short-story master
Tolstoy · Cyrillic · Hermitage · Golden Age · Russian literature · Turgenev · Imperial Russia · Decembrists
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- odeLaudatory verse form
lyric · imagery · quatrain · couplet · elegy · iambic · tetrameter · ballad
Intense fond attachment
- passionIntense emotional drive
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- natureInherent quality or disposition
freedom · fate · longing · Tatiana · unrequited · devotion · sentiment · idealism
One who begins something
- innovatorCreator of new methods
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- standardizationImplementing uniform technical specifications
- national poetCountry's honored verse writer
cultural icon · influence · legacy · canon · masterwork · classical · formative · transformation
duel
Prearranged one-on-one combat
jealousy · Natalya · scandal · wound · thirty-seven · mortality · martyrdom · legend · grief · mourning
Moscow
Russia's capital city
- St. PetersburgRussian Baltic port city
- TsarRussian imperial title
- Dostoevsky19th-century Russian author
Tolstoy · Chekhov · Cyrillic · Hermitage · Golden Age · Russian literature · Turgenev · Imperial Russia · Decembrists · aristocracy
verse
Metered poetic passage
ode · lyric · imagery · quatrain · couplet · elegy · iambic · tetrameter · ballad · Romanticism
love
Intense fond attachment
nature · freedom · fate · longing · Tatiana · unrequited · devotion · sentiment · idealism · melancholy
founder
One who begins something
- innovatorCreator of new methods
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- standardizationImplementing uniform technical specifications
national poet · cultural icon · influence · legacy · canon · masterwork · classical · formative · transformation · linguistic
- Russian ArtistsTchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov, Chekhov
- Russian WritersTolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Dostoyevsky
- Russian PoetsPasternak, Kushner
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
PushkinDostoevsky
19th-century Russian author
Solzhenitsyn · Tolstoy · Nabokov · Sakharov · dissident writers