Alexander Pushkin was a famous Russian author born in 1799 who is considered Russia's national poet. He contributed greatly to modern Russian literature. The document also references an excerpt from one of Pushkin's poems about a doting childhood companion whose knitting occasionally stops as she watches a road beyond crumbling gates, lost in visions she cannot discern.

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AlexAnder Pushkin
(1799-1837)
• Alexander Pushkin is a ‘Russia’s
Bard’ and one of the most
important contributors to modern
Russian literature who was born
in Mosco, Russia

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Dear doting sweet heart of my childhood,
Companion of my austere fate!

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• While, in your wrinkled hands, your knitting
• Fitfully falters to a stop

6. • Beyond the crumbling gates the pine trees
• Shadow the road you watch so well
• You cannot tell what visions haunt you: Now
you seem to see…
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