Pushkin

When I see Oliona back at her flat she brings out a tome of Pushkin.

Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.

By midnight, the streets around Pushkin Square were eerily empty, save for a sea of grey-uniformed Interior Ministry troops.

But I took the overnight train from Kiev and stumbled down Pushkin Street toward the city center.

Among the most famous of his dramatic fragments and vignettes is a series of “Anecdotes about Pushkin.”

According to him Keats and Pushkin are benefactors not because of their beautiful verses, but because of other reasons.

This is the very reason why the Byronian influence, at the time of Pushkin and Lermontov, lasted such a short time.

I looked up, and the familiar lines of Pushkin about the golden moon of Spain flashed into my mind.

Pushkin, who was as jealous as Othello, challenged Danths to a duel.

"My dear, here is Count Pushkin trying to speak to you," said her aunt.