To the Beloved: Poems and Paintings from Pushkin to His Thirty-Seven Lovers

Author: (Russia) Pushkin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Pushkin was healthy, strong, and full of energy. He was not handsome, but had a slender and well-proportioned figure, a vivid and expressive face, a rosy complexion, and a head of curly blonde hair. His eyes sparkled with excitement. He won the favor of many women with his extraordinary talent and sharp wit. Pushkin was emotionally rich, passionate, and had a diverse and colorful love life. He was not only a poet but also a lover, and out of the nearly nine hundred lyric poems he wrote in his lifetime, over two hundred were about love. His love poems were not only full of humanity, delicate in emotion, sincere, and moving, but also very real, simple, honest, and intimate, reflecting his profound experiences and genuine feelings in his rich and complex love life. The poet's soul was noble and pure, his emotions sincere and passionate, and his language simple and beautiful. Pushkin's lyric poetry is a great model of harmonious and beautiful art in Russian and world literature. Russian literary critic V. G. Belinsky, when praising Pushkin's poetry, said, "What kind of poetry is this! It has a charming, indescribable beauty and elegance, a dazzling brilliance and gentle luster, a harmonious melody and rhythm, filled with the full tenderness of creative fantasy and poetic expression, and the full joy."