Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

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A Russian poet and writer who started modern Russian literature

proper noun

: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Many literary critics consider Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin the most influential Russian poet of the nineteenth century.

Examples

The works of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin are taught in universities around the world.
She wrote her thesis on how Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin shaped modern Russian literature.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin is a great poet.
Is Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin your favorite author?
Many literary critics consider Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin the most influential Russian poet of the nineteenth century.
She wrote her thesis on how Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin shaped modern Russian literature.
The works of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin are taught in universities around the world.

Synonyms

Pushkin

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A famous Russian poet and writer from the early 1800s

uses the full original formal name rather than the short surname form

Alexander Pushkin

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A famous Russian poet, playwright and writer from the 1800s

uses the original formal full name with patronymic transliteration

Surface Forms

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin main

Morphology

Aleksandr + Sergeyevich + Pushkin

This item is a full personal name (a proper noun) rather than a compositional phrase: knowing the individual name-parts does not let a learner derive the biographical meaning 'a major Russian poet and writer.' Proper names are referential and arbitrary across languages, so their semantic content (fame, profession, dates) is not predictable from the constituents.

Etymology

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet in the early 1800s who wrote lively poems and stories that mixed everyday speech with classic forms. Because his work changed the way people wrote in Russian, his name now stands for the 'founder of modern Russian literature'.