Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

26, 1799. He was a famous writer.

family. When he was twelve he was sent to school named Imperial Lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo and soon started to write romantic poems.
Being adult Pushkin became politically active person, he supported the Decembrist revolt of 1825 and wrote political poems. For that he had to spend in exile six years of his life. Being exiled, he wrote about life of simple Russian people, about history and traditions of his country.

‘Boris Godunov’, ‘The Captain’s Daughter’, ‘The Queen of Spades’, ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ and many others.

spend a lot of his time in society at court. Pushkin wrote more and more prose works. In 1837 he was killed in a duel defending his wife’s honor.