Alexander Pushkin

Dedication For you, queens of my soul, my treasured Young beauties, for your sake did I Devote my golden hours of leisure To writíng down, FII not deny, With faithful hand of long past ages The whispered fables____ Take them, pray, Accept these playful lines, these pages For which I ask no...

A Song about Prince OlegBy PUSHKINOleg, the wise Prince, roused to arm, Cried : " Vengeance on the ruthless horde Of raiding Chosars ! Field and farm My men shall put to fire and sword ! And when his faithful horse was brought, He rode out with his knights and men, In damascened, gold armour,...

With his suite the Tsar departed. The Tsaritsa tender-hearted At the window sat alone, Wishing he would hurry home. All day every day she waited, Gazing till her dedicated Eyes grew weak from overstrain, Gazing at the empty plain. Not a sign of her beloved! Nothing but the snowflakes...

Note Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) could without exaggeration be called the founding father of modern Russian literature. He was the nation's first poet to achieve international fame writing in his mother tongue (educated Russians then used mainly French and German); his play Boris...