Who does not know Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, one of the greatest poets of all times and peoples? His name is rattling all over the world, monuments to him stand even at the edge of the world, and millions of people are fascinated by Pushkin’s poetry even today. Poets of this scale in world history can be counted on the fingers, and Pushkin rightfully occupies one of the first places among them.
At the age of 4, the future great poet almost died under the hooves of the imperial horse. Pushkin had one strange phobia – he was afraid to break a long fingernail on his little finger, and therefore he always took a golden thimble with him on all trips. Young Pushkin was fascinated by French and French poetry, for which he received the nickname “French” from his peers. Out of 30 students of the Lyceum, Pushkin took the 26th place at the time of the end of this prestigious educational institution in terms of total academic performance. Being short-tempered and very hot-tempered, Pushkin took part in many duels. Once he even shot with his close friend Kuchelbecker, who summoned the poet to a duel because of an insulting joke for him. Fortunately, everything worked out, as the seconds loaded their pistols with bullets but with cranberries. Pushkin has always enjoyed success with the opposite sex, and there were very, very many women in his life. Since Pushkin’s wife was half a head taller, he didn’t come up to her at social events so that this difference in height wouldn’t strike people. Being a fan of card games, Pushkin often lost large sums of money.
In his manuscripts Pushkin left many drawings, very talented, by the way. Pushkin survived 20 duels, but the 21st was fatal for him. Turgenev considered Pushkin’s poems to be a cure for depression, and in the case of a bad mood, I recommended to read at least a dozen of them. The famous poem “Count Nulin” was written by Pushkin overnight, when he urgently needed money to pay the debt. Pushkin’s first duel took place back in the years of his studies at the lyceum. At the age of 8, Pushkin already wrote poems in French.
Pushkin threw the idea of writing the famous “Inspector” to Gogol. Pushkin’s brother spoke of him as an unattractive man. In total, Pushkin owned more than ten different languages. It was thanks to Alexander Sergeyevich that the Russian language was enriched with a lot of new words.
