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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Male : Wrote in many forms - lyrical poetry, narrative verse, daram, folk-tales, and short stories. He was exiled to the Caucasus. Married Natalya Gonacharova 1831. Killed by a Frenchman, Baron Georges d'Antes in a duel defending his wife's honour
Nationality : Russian Place of Birth : Moscow

Date of Birth : 1799 Date of Death : 1837 Age : 38

Education : Lycee at Tsarkoe Selo
[Musicians have used his works as plots for operas - Russian and Ludmilla (fairy romance) was
dramatised by Glinka; the verse novel Eugene Onegin and the short story Queen of Spades by
Tchaikovsky; tragic drama Boris ]
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1827-1900
The Gypsies
(1827 Moscow) - narrative poem
The Talisman
(1835 Schulz & Beneze, St Petersburg) - Trans by George Borrow
The Captain's Daughter : A Christmas Tale
(1859 Hollinger, London) (1928 Viking NY)
- Trans by J F Hanstein
[Filmed in 1958 as "Tempest"]
Russian Romances by A S Poushkin
(1875 A S King)
Marie : A Story of Russian Love
(1877 Jansen McClurg, US)
Eugene Oneguine : A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
(1881 Macmillan) - Trans by Henry Spalding
[Filmed in 1998 as "Onegin"]
Poems
(1888 Cupples & Hurd, US) - Trans by I Panin
The Daughter of the Commandment : A Russian Romance
(1891 Eden)
The Queen of Spades & Other stories
(1892 Chapman & Hall)
[Filmed in 1948]
Tales from the Russian
(1892 Railway & General Automatic Library)
The Prose Tales of A Poushkin
(1894 G Bell)
Translations from Pushkin
(1899 Sampson Low)

1901-1950
The Captain's Daughter & Other Tales
(1915 Hodder & Stoughton)
Boris Godunov : Rendered into English Verse by A Hayes
(1918 Kegan Paul)
The Golden Cockerel
(1918 C W Beaumont) - 65 numbered on vellum. Michel Sevier
Three Tales : The Snowstorm, The Postmaster & The Undertaker
(1919 Harrap)
Boris Godunov : A Drama in Verse
(1925 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner)
The Captain's Daughter
(1928 Dent)
The Queen of Spades
(1928 Blackamore Press) - 275 numbered on vellum. A Alexeiff
+ 35 Presentation Copies, numbered on vellum
Gabriel : A Poem in One Song
(1929 NY) - 750 copies on Vellum. Rockwell Kent
Poems Translated from Pushkin by Maurice Baring
(1931 PP) - single sheet. 50 copies
The Full Story of 'Le Coq D'Or'
(1932 NY)
The Captain's Daughter & Other Tales
(1933 Dent Everyman)
Verses from Pushkin and Others : By Oliver Elton
(1935 Edward Arnold)
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
(1936 Golden Cockerel Press) - Robert Gibbings. 100 numbered
The Russian Wonderland : Coq D'Or, The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, Tale of Czar Saltan
(1936 Paisley Press, US)
Eugene Onegin
(1937 Curwen for Pushkin Press, London)
Eugene Onegin
(1937 California UP) - Trans by Radin & Patrick
Evegeny Onegin
(1937 Pushkin Press) - M V Dobukinsky
+ De Luxe edition of 775 numbered copies
The Golden Cockerel
(1938 T Nelson, US) - Willy Pogany
The Works of Alexander Pushkin
(1939 Nonesuch Press)
Eugene Onegin
(1943 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Fritz Eichenberg
Pushkin's Poems : A Selection Translated by Walter Morison
(1945 Prague Press / Allen & Unwin)
Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev : Poems
(1947 Lindsay Drummond) - Trans by Vladimir Nabokov
The Wagon of Life & Other Lyrics
( (1947 Cresset Press)
Two Fairy Tales
(1947 Owl Press) - V Neshumoff
The Golden Cockerel
(1950 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edmund Dulac
+ 50 Presentation Copies signed by Dulac

1951-1970
Boris Godunov : Russian text with Translation
(1953 Columbia UP)
An Amateur Peasant Girl
(1955 Rodale Press, Miniature Books Series) - Ian Ribbons
Pushkin's Bronze Horseman : The Story of a Masterpiece
(1955 California UP)
The Captain's Daughter / The Negro of Peter the Great
(1958 Neville Spearman)
The Queen of Spades & Other Stories
(1962 Penguin Classics)
The Letters of Alexander Pushkin : Edited by Thomas J Shaw
(1963 OUP) - 3 vols
Pushkin : Selected Verse
(1964 Penguin Poets)
Eugene Onegin
(1964 Routledge & Kegan Paul) - 4 vols

After 1971
The Captain's Daughter & Other Stories
(1971 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500. Charles Mozley
An Amateur Peasant Girl
(1973 Ampleforth Press, Ampleforth) - 300. James O'Connor
Alexander Pushkin : Selected Works - Vol 1 Poetry
(1974 Progress Publishers, Moscow)
Eugene Onegin
(1977 Charles Johnston / Bodley Head)
Pushkin's Fairy Tales
(1978 Barrie & Jenkins, London) - 250 numbered. Arthur Boyd
The Bronze Horseman : Selected Poems
(1982 Viking NY)
Mozart and Salieri : The Little Tragedies
(1982 Angel Books)
Alexander Pushkin : Selected Works Vol 2 - Prose
(1983 Progress Publishers, Moscow)
The Tales of Belkin
(1983 Angel Classics)
Narrative Poems by Alexander Pushkin & Michael Lermontov
(1984 Charles Johnston/Bodley Head)
The Bronze Horseman : Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin
(1982 Secker & Warburg)
Four Stories by Alexander Pushkin
(1987 Allen Press, Greenbrae, CA) - 145. John De Pol
The Fisherman and the Little Golden Fish
(1991 Dent) - Patricia MacCarthy
The Captain's Daughter & Other Stories
(1992 Everyman's Library)

READING
D Mirsky : Pushkin
(1926 London)
J Lavrin : Pushkin and Russian Literature
(1947 London)
J Fennell : Pushkin
(1964 Penguin)
E Simmons : Pushkin
(1964 NY)
David Magarshack : Pushkin - A Biography
(1967 Chapman & Hall)
(Eds) D Richards & C Cockrell : Russian Views of Pushkin (1967 Oxford)
Walter N Vickery : Pushkin - Death of a Poet
(1968 Indiana UP)
John Bayley : Pushkin - A Comparative Commentary
(1971 Cambridge UP)
T Wolff : Pushkin on Literature
(1971 London)
Henry Troyat : Pushkin
(1974 Allen & Unwin)
A Briggs : Alexander Pushkin - A Critical Study
(1983 Totowa, NJ)
H Bloom : Alexander Pushkin
(1987 NY)
(Eds) P Barta & U Goebel : The Contexts of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1988 Lewiston, NY)
S Driver : Pushkin - Lietarture and Social Ideas
(1989 NY)
A Briggs : Alexander Pushkin - Eugenii Onegin
(1992 Cambs, Mass)
(Ed) D Bethea : Pushkin Today (1993 Bloomington, Ind)
Robin Edmonds : Pushkin - The Man & His Age
(1995 Macmillan £20)
Elaine Feinstein : Pushkin
(1998 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20)
Serena Vitale : Pushkin's Button
(1999 Fourth estate £16.99)
T J Binyon : Pushkin - A Biography
(2002 Harper Collins £30)

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