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[[File:Portrait of Alexander Pushkin (Orest Kiprensky, 1827).PNG|thumb|300px]]
Most easily described as the [[
Pushkin's full name was '''Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin''' (in Cyrillic, Алекcа́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин). Born 1799, died 1837, continuing the long held tradition of literary geniuses everywhere of dying before their fortieth birthday.
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Much like Shakespeare, he was so [[Badass Bookworm|badass]] at writing he actually changed the shape of the Russian language, by basically [[Indy Ploy|making up words]] to fill lexical gaps in Russian, and writing in ways that previously hadn't been even considered in Russia. Without him, we probably wouldn't have Leo Tolstoy, [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], or [[Vladimir Nabokov]].
It may be correct to call Pushkin the Russian [[
Probably most famous outside Russia for his [[Narrative Poem|novel-in-verse]] ''Eugene Onegin'', and his play ''Boris Godunov''.
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Thousands showed up for Pushkin's funeral; doubting that Pushkin was anything but the most prominent and perfect Russian became a crime in academic circles until maybe 1980s. His image was used to rally the Russian nation multiple times, most recently in 1999 where many social and political advertisements on television included a count-down to his 200th birthday.
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: ''The Undertaker''
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Boris Godunov. He is a regicide who murdered Dmitry Ivanovich, and he attains the throne of Russia. However, he sincerely wishes to be a good ruler and is hounded by guilt.
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* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: In ''Ruslan and Ludmila''.
* [[Driven to Madness]]: Protagonists in {{spoiler|''The Queen of Spades''}} and {{spoiler|''The Bronze Horseman''}}.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Duel to
* [[German Russians]]: Hermann in ''The Queen of Spades''; potentially Lensky in ''Eugene Onegin'', who is described as a "half-Russian" who spent some years studying in Germany.
* [[Greedy Jew]]: Moneylender from ''The Miserly Knight''.
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* [[The Scrooge]]: The eponymous character in ''The Miserly Knight''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Depiction of the Pugachev's rebellion in ''The Captain's Daughter'' is very historically accurate.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stealth Parody]]: ''Ruslan and Liudmila'' (of chivalric romances and narrative poems). ''Eugene Onegin'' (of the [[Byronic Hero]]).
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Lenskiy's poem in ''Eugene Onegin'' is a [[Cliché Storm]].
* [[Too Many Halves]]: He epigrammatically describes one of his contemporaries as "half-milord, half-merchant, half-fool, half-ignoramus, half-scoundrel, but there's a hope he'll finally be full."
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Pushkin wrote a short play called ''Mozart and Salieri'' loosely based off of the life of the two composers. This was [[Ripped from the Headlines|sparked off by news reports at the time]] that Salieri had confessed to murdering Mozart on his deathbed. This did much to promote the (false) notion that Mozart and Salieri were lifelong rivals and enemies (as repeated much later in the play and film ''[[
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Salieri in ''Mozart and Salieri'', Hermann in ''The Queen of Spades'', possibly Boris Godunov.
* [[Weird Al Effect]]: ''Ruslan and Ludmila'' contain large parts referencing to and parodying Vasiliy Zhukovsky's ballad "The Twelve Sleeping Maidens" (Zhukovsky, apparently, loved the parody). One guess which is better known today.
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Perhaps better applied to his fans then him though Pushkin had an obsession with getting into duels. But during [[World War I]] and it's spinoffs every student in a Russian school went off to war with a copy of Pushkin in his knapsack. And no doubt it could be found with that generation all over the world for decades as different warrior poets went their ways joining different political factions.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Tatiana initially sees life as a romantic novel and Onegin as [[Byronic Hero]].
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