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Most easily described as the [[Useful Notes/Russia|Russian]] [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] - his body of work is as revered and studied in Russia as Shakespeare's is in the English-speaking world.<ref> Within Russian literature, his position is perhaps that of Shakespeare ''plus'' [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]] - poets who wrote before him are basically not important enough to matter.</ref>
 
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.