Wednesday 23 July 2014

REMEMBERANCE OF LOVE PAST

PUSHKIN







‘OH, I HAVE LOVED YOU’

Oh, I have loved you, and perhaps my spirit
Still harbours a warm glow of love today.
But God forbid that you be burdened with it;
I would not sadden you in any way.

I loved you in a wordless, hopeless fashion,
Sometimes in jealous rage, sometimes struck dumb.
I loved you with a deep and tender passion.
May you be loved like this in years to come.

Pushkin's Farewell to the Sea. 1887. Oil on canvas. Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin.>A</b>leksander 
                    Pushkin was born in Moscow into a cultured, but poor aristocratic 
                    family. Pushkin's great-grandfather was brought from Africa 
                    as a gift to Peter the Great, who treated him as his own, 
                    gave him noble status, and made him his comrade in arms. Even 
                    before Alexander was born his path in life was destined to 
                    be an unusual one. <br>
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                    <b>I</b>n his childhood the future poet was entrusted to nursemaids, 
                    French tutors, and governesses. He learned Russian from household 
                    serfs and from his nanny Arina. Pushkin started to write poems 
                    from an early age. His first published poem was written when 
                    he was only 14.<br>
<br>
<b>I</b>n 1811 Tsar Alexander I opened a school 
                    for boys, the Lyceum, which Pushkin was to attend. By his 
                    graduation from the Lyceum in 1817, Pushkin was already famous 
                    all throughout Russia. His first legitimate work, "Ruslan 
                    and Ludmila," was completed as his graduation project. 
                    To this day it is argued that, "Ruslan and Ludmila," 
                    is his greatest literary work.<i><font color=
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