Any criticism whatsoever rather than praise of JoAnn Pushkin is really out of line.
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It is as if Pushkin is too great a mountain for any one writer to scale.
Quarrelsome, erratic and libidinous, Pushkin had affairs, fought duels and challenged authority wherever he went.
According to Pushkin himself, life began when he joined the Lyceum school in St Petersburg.
Pushkin has been cherished equally by Slavophiles and westernisers, by tsars and Communists, by peasants and aristocrats.
She avoids demonising Pushkin's beautiful, but shallow wife, Natalya, although there is not much to be said in her defence.
Ms Feinstein is particularly strong on Pushkin's luminous use of Russian for readers who are forced to read opaque translations.
Shows of some of the paintings have been put on in the Hermitage and in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Pushkin did not excel at school, but from the earliest age he had a feel for language which was quite exceptional.
These events get roughly the same amount of space as Coco and Pushkin, and yet they are, on their own terms, moving.
And, for all its strengths, this book never succeeds in explaining the breadth of Pushkin's potent appeal to Russians of every period and political persuasion.
The Pendragon Legend is published by the Pushkin Press, which has taken upon itself the task of exposing readers to European writers neglected in the Anglophone world.
Russia denied it had the treasure until 1993 - then in 1996 it put necklaces, bracelets and other objects from the collection on display at Moscow's Pushkin Museum.
The bicentenary of Pushkin's birth in May 1999 will be marked by no fewer than three new English biographies and critical studies as well as innumerable Russian publications.
It unites the great names of Russian culture: Michail Glinka and Alexandr Pushkin, maestro Vladimir Jurowski, and one of the most talented opera directors in the world, Dmitri Tcherniakov.
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There is a newspaper article from Pravda about the 1955 exhibit at Moscow's Pushkin Museum, the first and only time the painting was exhibited publicly in the Soviet Union.
If you want to get in touch with your inner aristocrat, St Petersburg is ringed by grand palaces set in beautifully landscaped grounds such as Petrodvorets, Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo) and Pavlovsk .
But long before Ms Feinstein considers Pushkin's downfall amid the hostile, treacherous and sexually licentious members of Nicholas I's court, she draws a sympathetic, if not always approving, portrait of Pushkin's contradictory and flawed genius.
From then on he endured internal exile in three different locations, followed by a lowly position at court which enabled Nicholas I, the new tsar, to function as Pushkin's personal censor while flirting with his new young wife.
My grandmother, bored by inactivity within weeks of the move, created a job for herself at a commuter college in Sarasota, teaching Russian literature to tanned students who seem (based on my one classroom visit) constantly alarmed by her profanity, her heavy sarcasm, and her word-perfect memory of Pushkin's verse.
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