Aleksander Sergeevich PUSHKIN 1799-1837

Abram Petrovich GANNIBAL
Pushkin’s Great-Great Grandfather, from Ethiopia

Mikhailovskoe

Arina RODIONOVNA
Pushkin’s nurse

Czar Aleksander I
Ruled Russia 1801-1825

Lyceum
at Tsarskoe Selo

Young Pushkin recites before Poet Derzhavin

The Hussar Evgraf Davidov
Painting by Orest Kipresnsky

Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky
Hero of the
War of 1812

Czar
Nikolas I
Supressed the Decembrist rebellion

Natalya Goncharova-Pushkina
Pushkin’s wife

The Pushkins
One of many statues to the famous poet

Georges-Charles d’Anthes
After killing Pushkin in a duel, d’Anthes lived to a ripe old age.

The duel by I. Repin

Statue in Moscow

Bronze Horseman

Bronze Horseman
By sculptor Falconet