To me the publication of Yarmolinsky’s introduction and Babette Deutsch’s translations of Pushkin, on the occasion of his centenary, is a calamity both in literature and in our cultural relations with ...

TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...

If you only know Pushkin by way of Tchaikovsky -- which isn't a bad way to know Pushkin -- a new translation of his distinctive fiction will give you a fuller sense of why he's considered the original ...

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 ...

Pushkin’s poetry is capable of not only helping humanity overcome its values crisis, it might even be able to lend a hand in saving us from global warming. —Julian Henry Lowenfeld 1 Among other ...