Alexander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet, novelist and playwright, was born in Moscow on may 26, 1799. The baby was baptized two days later in elohovskom Cathedral of the Epiphany in the presence of the parents and the godfather of count Vorontsov.A new page in the biography of Pushkin was opened in 1811, when the young Alexander entered the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum. There he survived the events of the war of 1812, and perhaps the shock caused by the invasion of Napoleon, was the first impetus for the rapid manifestation of the poetic gift. Pushkin in Tsarskoye Selo took the first steps on the way to the heights of poetic skill. In addition, he tried himself as an artist. In the literary archives of the outline of the poems of Alexander, which he himself illustrated.
