Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, the founder of modern Russian literature and known as the father of Russian literature. In his short life he produced works in poetry, fiction and drama. This collection holds nineteen of his works, including the verse novel Eugene Onegin, the novel The Captain's Daughter, the celebrated lyric "If by Life You Were Deceived", the twelve-volume Collected Works of Pushkin and the Complete Lyrical Poems. His writing is concise and emotionally sincere, blending narrative and lyricism, and it profoundly shaped the Russian literary language and later writers. In 1837 he died of wounds suffered in a duel.