Why Is Pushkin the Most Influential Writer in Russia?

Alexander Pushkin is considered the father of Russian Literature, the Shakespeare of Russia whose poetry captured the spirit of Russia, who influenced subsequent writers like Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. His most famous work is Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse. Today I will answer the following questions. Who was Pushkin? What’s Eugene Onegin about? I will summarise it and discuss its major themes. I will also answer how and why Pushkin captured the imagination of the Russian people. Pushkin also posed a few interesting questions, such as: is human existence nothing but a contradiction? Do we all want happiness or struggle and anguish? And Are smart, learned people really stupid and less happy because they suppress their natural inclinations? At the end I will read one of his most famous poems that nearly all Russians know by heart. 

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00:00 Intro
01:34 Pushkin's Life
04:55 Eugene Onegin Summary
18:05 Theme: Fiction in real life
19:17 City vs Country
22:28 Suffering
23:24 Pushkin's Spell on Russia
26:03 Poem "To***"




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