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Alexander Pushkin’s Eritrean Roots and Russian Literatur

alexander-pushkin-eritrea.jpgAlexander Sergeevich Pushkin was the creator of modern Russian Literatur and therefore, one of the greatest poet in European and Russian history. Pushkin is comparable to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in terms of the cultural heritage he left behind for mankind and the world. As a person Alexander is described as a man who expressed his love for humans, nature and simplicity through his scripts, poems and written tales.

His liberal views mixed with a new style of story telling sometimes caused him trouble with the authorities of his time, nevertheless he managed to revolutionized and form Russian Literature as we know it today.

He wrote one of his biggest master pieces, the novel Eugene Onegin, around 1825. Pushkin was born in Moscow and was regarded as a talent, who published his first poem at the age of fifteen, before his academic education in Saint Petersburg had even started.

Alexander’s great grand father was Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who was born in 1696 in Loggo Sarda a place close to abram-gannibal-eritrea.jpgDekemhare at the Mareb River in Eritrea.  Abram was brought by Emperor Peter the Great as a child  to Russia and was baptized having Peter as his godfather.

According to historians, the boy was not the only black child to be taken from his native home in Africa during this era. Monarchs in Europe thought it to be fashionable to have black children at the royal courts.

Pushkin’s grand father enjoyed academic education in science, arts and warfare in Paris, under the umbrella of the Royal Tsar family. As a high ranking monarch Abram later became a general, military engineer and governor of Reval, which is known today as Tallin the capital of Estonia.

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One Response to “Alexander Pushkin’s Eritrean Roots and Russian Literatur”

  1. Alexander Pushkin would always remain to be a great contribution to Russian literature,culture and an outstanding expression of The Russian Mind or Slavic civilizations.

    Personaly,the intention to say that…,never came across to any of the works of Alexander Pushkin.

    How ever,Great Artists of African origin or in This case of Eritrean origin form the total part of modern day popular culture and reference as much equal as both Eritea and Ethiopia.

    Alexander Pushkin would further stand as a gate way to diplomacy and international relations that is refined by the arts.

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