Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's pre-eminence as the father of Russian literature is undisputed. He is equally innovative as a lyric poet, writer of ironic fairy tales or author of the Little Tragedies. His masterpiece, Yevgeny Onegin, a novel in verse, has a narrative ingenuity altogether unprecedented, while his prose tales led directly to the flowering of the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Yet his life was as dramatic as any story he invented.
Elaine Feinstein's discerning new biography reveals a man of reckless ebullience and ready wit, whose unruly behaviour concealed an enduring loneliness.
Contains 12 pages of b/w illustrations