Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on May 26,1799 into a cultured but poor aristocratic family (Lakhostskii 25). On his father's side he was a descendant of an ancient noble family and on his mother's side he was a great-great grandson of a black Abyssinian, Gannibal, who served under Peter the Great. Pushkin took great pride in his black ancestry and noble heritage. Throughout his childhood the future poet was entrusted to nursemaids, French tutors and governesses. He learned Russian from household serfs and from his nanny, Arina Rodionovna (Lavrin 61). Pushkin started to write poems from an early age. His first published poem was written when he was only 14.

In 1811 he was selected to be among the thirty students in the first class at the Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo. He attended the Lyceum from 1811 to 1817 and received the best education available to Russia at

Lakhostskii, K.P. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Leningrad,

Pushkin was married to Natalia Goncharova on February 18, 1831, in Moscow. In October 1831 the Pushkins moved to an apartment in Petersburg, where they lived for the remainder of his life. Mme. Pushkina's beauty immediately made a sensation in society, and her admirers included the Tsar himself. On December 30, 1833, Nicholas I made Pushkin a Kammerjunker, an intermediate court rank usually granted at the time to youths of high aristocratic families (Mirsky 262).

Mirsky, D.S. Prince. Pushkin. New York: Dutton, 1963.

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