Sunday, June 4, 2017

John Malveaux: The African influence on Russian literature by Pushkin is similar to the influence of adventure novelist Alexandre Dumas on French literature

Alexander Pushkin

Alexandre Dumas

 
John Malveaux of 
writes:


The 2016 Metropolitan Opera's production of Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN and other productions are based on Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse. EUGENE ONEGIN was first performed in Moscow 1879. Pushkin is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet. "Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), an African page kidnapped to Constantinople as a gift to the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great."

The African influence on Russia literature by Pushkin is similar to the influence of adventure novelist Alexandre Dumas on France literature.. See pic1 of Pushkin and pic 2 Dumas.



 

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