The Bronze Horseman

Name: The Bronze Horseman
Author: Aleksander Pushkin

by Aleksander Pushkin

Poem about a statue of Peter the Great and the flood of Saint Petersburg

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Aleksander Pushkin

Russian poet who is considered the founder of modern Russian literature. Eugene Onegin, written in verse, is the supreme work of Russian Romanticism, and his lyric poetry set the standard for all subsequent Russian verse.

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