Alexander Pushkin , the greatest poet and writer born in Moscow into a family belonging to the
'cream' of Moscow society;
received his early education at home;
at the age of eight composed his first poem;
- published his first poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila”
in 1820 and became famous;
created literary Russian, wrote a lot of poems;
had political views close to the “Decembrists”;
died after a duel ['dju:ǝl];
buried in Svyatogorsk Monastery ['mpnəstəri] near
his family estate Mikhailovskoye
the best known work is “Eugene Onegin"
(1823-1831).​