Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) stands tall in the pantheon of world literature as Russia's most celebrated poet and the progenitor of modern Russian literature. His magnum opus, 'Eugene Onegin', is a cornerstone of Russian fiction, wherein Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in a novelistic form, and it remains a seminal work in the canon to this day. Bridging the neoclassica...