[poo
sh-kin; Russ. poo-shkyin] 
| A⋅le⋅xan⋅der Ser⋅ge⋅e⋅vich [al-ig-zan-der sur-gey-uh-vich, -zahn-; Russ. uh-lyi-ksahn-dr syir-gye-yi-vyich] , 1799–1837, Russian poet, short-story writer, and dramatist. |
| Push·kin (pŏŏsh'kĭn, pōōsh'-) Russian writer. Widely regarded as Russia's greatest poet, he wrote the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories. |
Pushkin
city, Leningrad oblast (province), northwestern Russia, 14 miles (22 km) south of St. Petersburg city. Tsarskoye Selo grew up around one of the main summer palaces of the Russian royal family. Catherine I commissioned the palace (1717-23); it was later enlarged (1743-48) and rebuilt (1752-57) in the Russian Baroque style by Bartolomeo Francisco Rastrelli. The palace and its park, also laid out by Rastrelli, were considerably embellished under Catherine II the Great by the Scottish architect Charles Cameron. Deliberately gutted by the Germans during World War II, the palace has been restored. In the park are the smaller Alexander Palace, built by the Italian Giacomo Quarenghi in 1792-96, and many pavilions, statues, and monuments, including the Hermitage, designed by Rastrelli, and the Agate Pavilion of Cameron. Cameron also designed the Rococo Chinese Village rebuilt by Stasov in 1822. Immediately adjacent to the main palace is the Lyceum, now converted to a museum in honour of the Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, who studied at the Lyceum from 1811 to 1817 and for whom the city was renamed in 1937 (at the 100th anniversary of his death). The first railway in the Russian Empire was built in 1837 from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo. The St. Petersburg State Agrarian University (1904) is located in the city. Pop. (2002) 84,628.
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