All Pushkin

It is interesting that the father of the great Russian poet, playwright and prose writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in society was known as secular wit and an amateur poet. Of course, the son went further. He became one of the most authoritative literary figures of the first third of the nineteenth century and is considered the founder of the modern Russian literary language. During his lifetime he was called a genius. In the article "A Few Words About Pushkin" the classic of literature NV Gogol wrote that "Pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon and, perhaps, the only phenomenon of the Russian spirit: it is a Russian man in his development, in which he, perhaps, will appear in two hundred years".