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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist. He is widely considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature.

Born into an aristocratic family, Pushkin attended school at the prestigious Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo from to , where, at age 15, he published his first poem.

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Pushkin followed the traditional aristocratic career path by taking a post in the foreign service office in St. Petersburg after his graduation.

In Pushkin was exiled from the capital due to his politically subversive poems.

Pushkin went south to the area now known as Ukraine, and was later exiled again to Mikhailovskoe, his mother's estate. The year after the Decembrist Revolt, Pushkin was pardoned by Tsar Nicholas I and allowed to return to Moscow.

Within a few years, he received a court position and reentered government service. Despite the pressures of censorship, mounting debts