Some of his other poetry, however, had a revolutionary flavor, which offended authorities as punishment, Pushkin was sent away from the capital to southern Russia in 1820. Pushkin’s first narrative poem, a romance titled Ruslan and Liudmila, was published in 1820, when he was 21 years old.
At the school, he excelled at writing poems, completing about 130 as a student. From 1811 to 1817 he attended a school for privileged children in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, where he showed an interest in literature. The poem uses the building of Saint Petersburg on the marshy banks of the Neva River, and the city’s history and place in the development of Russia, to explore themes such as human conflict with nature and the clash between collective and state interests and the welfare of individuals.Īlexander Pushkin was born into an aristocratic family on May 26, 1799, in Moscow, Russia.
Another feature of the poem is the Bronze Horseman: a statue of Peter the Great, which was completed in 1782. The poem also focuses on a tragic event in the city’s history, the great flood of 1824.
The poem tells of the founding of Saint Petersburg-Russia’s cultural and artistic capital-in 1703 by Tsar Peter the Great, who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725. Regarded as one of Pushkin’s most accomplished works, The Bronze Horseman has had a marked influence on Russian literature.
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