TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...

In Russia, a country rich with writers, one literary figure towers above the rest _ above Dostoevsky, above Chekhov, above Tolstoy. These days, he literally towers. His picture is draped from the top ...

The Olympics may be over, but Harlem is still thinking of Russia, with love. The Harlem Opera Theater on Thursday will celebrate the works of famed author Alexander Pushkin, one of the most famous ...

June marks the 220th birthday of Pushkin, father of modern Russian literature and genius of early 19th-century Romantic poetry, fiction, and drama. Reflecting his profound spiritual depth, his ...

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of an essay on Pushkin that Edmund Wilson published in the Atlantic at a time (December, 1943) when one normally began by saying that Pushkin was a Russian poet.

October 30, 1992. The dusk of evening has fallen over the San Francisco peninsula, and a modest crowd is filing into the Palo Alto Jewish Community Center, where a solo reading by the Russian émigré ...