Thoughts of Alexander Pushkin - Serious, inspiring, exemplary, interesting, entertaining statements of the famous father of modern Russian literature, poet, playwright and novelist

Alexander Pushkin, who showed the mirror to society, power and system, is liked a lot in the whole world from his lifetime till today. His works have been translated in languages ​​​​all over the world. Pushkin's thoughts and statements are quoted here and there, everywhere. Alexander is written and pronounced as Alexander in English. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on 6 June 1799 (26 May 1799 according to the old prevalent Russian calendar) in Moscow, Russian Empire. The United Nations celebrates United Nations Russian Language Day since 2010 on Pushkin's birthday. He was a prominent Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature and the one who enriched the Russian language. Pushkin was born in Moscow in a Russian noble family. Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin, was from an old noble family and one of his maternal grandparents was Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman of African descent who was kidnapped from his homeland by the Ottomans, then freed by the Russian emperor and raised as his godson at the emperor's court. Upon graduating from the Lycée, Pushkin presented his controversial poem Ode to Liberty, which was not liked by Emperor Alexander I and was punished by exile. While under strict surveillance by the emperor's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was published serially between 1825 and 1832.

Pushkin was mortally wounded in a skirmish with Georges-Charles de Heckenan d'Anthès, his wife's alleged lover and her sister's husband. Georges-Charles de Heckenan d'Anthès was a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard regiment. At the Lyceum Pushkin was greatly influenced by the Kantian liberal individualist teachings of Alexander Kunitsyn, whom Pushkin later recalled in his poem 19 October. Pushkin imbibed the ideas of the French Enlightenment in himself and said that he would remain indebted to those ideas for the rest of his life. According to Pushkin, Voltaire was the first to follow a new path and bring the lamp of philosophy into the dark archives of history. Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals. This angered the government and in May 1820 he was transferred from the capital. He went to the Caucasus and Crimea and then to Kamianka and Chisinau in Bessarabia, where he became a Freemason. He joined the Filiki Eteria, a secret organization that aimed to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and establish an independent Greek state.

Pushkin was inspired by the Greek Revolution and when war broke out against the Ottoman Empire he kept a diary to record the events of the national uprising. Critics consider several of his works to be masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the play The Stone Guest, which tells the story of the downfall of Don Juan. His poetic short play Mozart and Salieri (like The Stone Guest, one of the so-called four little tragedies is a collective characterization by Pushkin himself in a letter to Pyotr Pletnyov in 1830) was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as well as providing the libretto for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri. Pushkin is also known for his short stories. Especially his cycle The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, which includes The Shot, was well received. According to literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, the narrative logic and the plausibility of what is described, as well as the accuracy, conciseness, economy of the presentation of reality are all achieved in the Tales of Belkin, especially most of all in the story The Stationmaster.

Pushkin is considered to be the father of the long and fruitful development of Russian realistic literature, as he has succeeded in achieving the realistic ideal of the concise presentation of reality. Pushkin himself described the story in his verse novel Eugene Onegin as "the most realistic and most realistic of all". Pushkin preferred the classics, which follow a few central characters but vary widely in tone and focus, beginning the tradition of great Russian novels. Onegin, a work so complex, only a hundred pages long, that the translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render its meaning into English. Because of this difficulty in translation, Pushkin's poetry remains largely unknown to English readers. Yet Pushkin has deeply influenced Western writers such as Henry James. Pushkin wrote the short story The Queen of Spades.

The centenary of Aleksandr Pushkin's death, 1937, was one of the most important literary centenaries of the Soviet era in Stalinist Russia, equalled only by the centenary commemorating Leo Tolstoy's birth in 1928. Despite the ever-present public display of his face on billboards and candy wrappers, Pushkin's image conflicted with the Soviet ideal (he was known as a liberal with unrepentant aristocratic tendencies) and was subject to repressive revisionism, similar to the Stalinist state's purge of Tolstoy's Christian anarchism. Here are excerpts from a poem by Alexander Pushkin and Pushkin's profound, inspiring, exemplary, interesting, amusing, sayings

Then came a moment of renaissance,

I looked up,

There you are again,

A fleeting vision,

The essence of all that is beautiful and rare.

Please never despise the translator. He is the postman of human civilization.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we cannot come up with anything else to justify our actions.

Inspiration is needed in geometry as much as in poetry.

Unrequited love does not degrade man but elevates him.

I have lived longer than all wishes, my dreams and I have parted, my sorrow is all that remains, the glow of an empty heart. The storms of the merciless system have numbed my garland of flowers, I live in lonely desolation and wonder when my end will come. On the branch of a bare tree like this, scorched by the cold of the slow winter whistle, a solitary leaf that has outlived its season must still be trembling.

With women, the less we love them, the easier it is to charm them.

He is a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to his faith, who has suppressed intellectual isolation and can relax in the luxury of his feelings, like a drunken traveler resting overnight at a roadside inn.

If only you knew what flames burn inside me that I try to extinguish with my reasoning.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than many poor truths.

I loved you, even now I can confess, some embers of my love keep their fire. But let it not hurt you any more, I do not want to make you sad again. Disappointed and speechless, still I loved you so much, even the jealous and timid know, I loved you so much, so sincerely, I pray that God will give you another love.

My whole life is dedicated to this meeting with you.

The less we show our love to a woman, or the less we please her, and neglect our duty, the more we ensnare and ruin her, surely, in flattering deeds of adultery.

As long as there is a heart on earth where I still live, my memories will not die.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I have lived to bury my desires, and seen my dreams corrode with rust, now all that remains is the fruitless fire that burns my empty heart to ashes.

Do not be sad, do not be angry, if life deceives you! Accept your suffering, your time of joy will come, believe me.

Somewhere between passion and compulsion is impulse.

Illusions that make us better than ten thousand truths.

Do not fear insults, do not demand a crown, accept both flattery and slander indifferently, and do not argue with a fool.

It is better to have a thousand dreams that never come true than never to have dreamed at all.

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