Pushkin - A Biography

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is indisputably Russia's greatest poet ? the nearest Russian equivalent to Shakespeare ? and his brief life was as turbulent and dramatic as anything in his work. T.J Binyon's biography of this brilliant and rebellious figure is ?a remarkable achievement' and its publication ?a real event' (Catriona Kelly, Guardian). No other work on Pushkin on the same scale, and with the same grasp of atmosphere and detail, exists in English?, and Pushkin is well worth writing about? he was a remarkable man, a man of action as well as a poet, and he lived a remarkable life, dying in a duel at the age of thirty-seven....