📚Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (born June, 6, 1799) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.⬇️
#preintermediateandabove
Fascinating facts about Alexander Pushkin:
📚He created the modern Russian language
📚He mastered a wide range of genres: classical odes, romantic poems, love and political verse, novels in verse, historical drama, realist prose, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, travel journals – and much more, besides.
📚 His matrilineal great grandfather was a black African page brought over to Russia as a slave
📚 He was a serial duellist. Pushkin is believed to have fought as many as 29 duels and was obviously a man who cared deeply about his honour. His last engagement was the one where he would receive his fatal wound
📚 Pushkin was a member of the outlawed political group The Decembrists
Find out more ⬇️
https://interestingliterature.com/2014/10/19/guest-blog-five-fascinating-facts-about-alexander-pushkin/
https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2016/06/06/pushkin-birthday_600561
Fascinating facts about Alexander Pushkin:
📚He created the modern Russian language
📚He mastered a wide range of genres: classical odes, romantic poems, love and political verse, novels in verse, historical drama, realist prose, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, travel journals – and much more, besides.
📚 His matrilineal great grandfather was a black African page brought over to Russia as a slave
📚 He was a serial duellist. Pushkin is believed to have fought as many as 29 duels and was obviously a man who cared deeply about his honour. His last engagement was the one where he would receive his fatal wound
📚 Pushkin was a member of the outlawed political group The Decembrists
Find out more ⬇️
https://interestingliterature.com/2014/10/19/guest-blog-five-fascinating-facts-about-alexander-pushkin/
https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2016/06/06/pushkin-birthday_600561
Interesting Literature
Guest Blog: Five Fascinating Facts about Alexander Pushkin
By Karen Langley 1. His matrilineal great grandfather was a black African page brought over to Russia as a slave. Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781) was kidnapped and taken to Russia as a gift fo…
📚Read Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin, in English ⬇️
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Russian/Onegin1.htm
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Russian/Onegin1.htm
Poetryintranslation
Pushkin, Alexander (1799–1837) - Eugene Onegin: Chapter 1
Pushkin - Eugene Onegin, in a new freely downloadable translation
📚Do you like reading ?
📖 What do you usually read?
- almanacs
- best sellers
- booklets
- brochure
- comic books
- dictionaries
- encyclopedias
- magazines
- novels
- periodicals
- pamphlets
- picture books
- reference books
Paperback or hardcover?
E-books or audio books?
📖 What do you usually read?
- almanacs
- best sellers
- booklets
- brochure
- comic books
- dictionaries
- encyclopedias
- magazines
- novels
- periodicals
- pamphlets
- picture books
- reference books
Paperback or hardcover?
E-books or audio books?
📚I'm afraid physics will always be a closed book to me.
📚Of course I understand you. I read you like a book.
📚He's in Melanie's bad books because he arrived two hours late.
📚I cleaned the bathroom yesterday so I'm in Mum's good books.
📚The murderer will be found and brought to book.
📚I know she's a little frumpy, but don't judge a book by its cover, man!
📚 Ask me anything, I'm an open book.
📚 It was the oldest trick in the book - one man distracted me while another stole my wallet.
📚Judge Neil runs his courtroom efficiently and by the book.
📚Harriet took a leaf out of her mother's book and began to keep track of how much money she was spending on food
📚Of course I understand you. I read you like a book.
📚He's in Melanie's bad books because he arrived two hours late.
📚I cleaned the bathroom yesterday so I'm in Mum's good books.
📚The murderer will be found and brought to book.
📚I know she's a little frumpy, but don't judge a book by its cover, man!
📚 Ask me anything, I'm an open book.
📚 It was the oldest trick in the book - one man distracted me while another stole my wallet.
📚Judge Neil runs his courtroom efficiently and by the book.
📚Harriet took a leaf out of her mother's book and began to keep track of how much money she was spending on food
Library VS Internet - ten good reasons to use the library 📚
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/publicservices/library_vs_internet.aspx
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/publicservices/library_vs_internet.aspx
Yesterday I went to the post office.
Do you know why?
To send postcards 💌 within postcrossing project 🕊
Do you know why?
To send postcards 💌 within postcrossing project 🕊
What is Postcrossing?
The goal of this project is to allow anyone to send and receive postcards from all over the world!
The idea is simple: for each postcard you send, you will receive one back from a random postcrosser from somewhere in the world.
Why?
Simply because, like its founder, there are lots of people who like to receive real mail.
Why?
Receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of!) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises — and who wouldn't like that?
The goal of this project is to allow anyone to send and receive postcards from all over the world!
The idea is simple: for each postcard you send, you will receive one back from a random postcrosser from somewhere in the world.
Why?
Simply because, like its founder, there are lots of people who like to receive real mail.
Why?
Receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of!) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises — and who wouldn't like that?