Bao Huolao Biographies Library · Giants 100 Biographies Series -- Pushkin

Author: Zhu Xiansheng
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: We are delighted to recommend the "Giant Biographies Series" to young friends. At the turn of the century, having such a fine series accompany you is a joy in wisdom. We believe that from the footsteps of these giants and masters, you can learn how to properly handle success and failure, comfort and hardship, joy and pain, smoothness and adversity, understand how to face life, how to be a person, how to pursue knowledge, how to shape oneself, and how to shape the future.
Principal of Peking University: Zhao Yulin
Party Secretary: Dong Lingsheng
Principal of Tsinghua University: Zhao Qinggang
Giants are the elite of humanity. They have made outstanding contributions to the progress and civilization of human society. Their spirit of struggle and extraordinary achievements are deeply admired by people, becoming models for others to learn from. Giants are human, not gods; they come from ordinary people but surpass them. Their lofty ideals and belief in serving the motherland and humanity drive them to persevere and fear no difficulties.
Principal of Tianjin Nankai: Kang Xiuyan
By carefully reading this series, you will feel as if you see their appearance, hear their words, and experience their ideals, beliefs, ambitions, and moral character. This will help you learn how to be a person, how to pursue knowledge, and how to build a career.
Principal of Fudan University: Cao Tianren
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was the greatest poet of the 19th century Russia and the founder of Russian literature. Born into a noble family, he received a good literary education from a young age. During his studies at the Imperial Lyceum, he was influenced by patriotic and progressive ideas of the time and made friends with some future Decembrists (Russian aristocratic revolutionaries). After graduation, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg. During this period, he wrote political lyrical poems such as "Ode to Freedom" and "To Chaadaev," praising freedom and progress, opposing serfdom, and criticizing autocratic rule. These works reflected the ideals of enlightened nobility and had a profound impact on revolutionary figures of the time. In 1820, the Tsar exiled Pushkin to the Caucasus. Soon after, he was imprisoned in his mother's estate, Mikhailovsky Village, on the pretext of his atheistic beliefs. After the failure of the Decembrist uprising in 1825, the Tsar tried to lure him back to Moscow, hoping to turn him into a court poet. However, due to his progressive ideas and creative activities, which clashed with the interests of the ruling class, Pushkin was hated by the aristocratic group in the Tsar's court. In a duel orchestrated by the Tsar and his allies in 1837, Pushkin was fatally wounded. His last words were, "This world cannot bear me."
Pushkin is the founder of Russian language and literature. His works laid the foundation for modern Russian literature, heralding its golden age and nurturing generations of outstanding Russian writers, earning him the title of "Father of Modern Russian Literature." Gogol said, "His works are like a dictionary, containing all the richness, power, and soul of our language." Gorky called him "a master poet who synthesized the achievements of predecessors and encompassed all novelty and wit."