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Natalia GoncharovaPeople

Natalia Goncharova

Wife of Alexander Pushkin. They married in 1831 and had four children. Alexander Brullov’s watercolour preserves her appearance in the early 1830s.

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Nadezhda Osipovna Pushkina

Alexander Pushkin’s mother and a granddaughter of Abram Petrovich Gannibal. She owned Mikhailovskoye, the estate associated with the poet’s exile.

Napoleon BonapartePeople
1769–1821

Napoleon Bonaparte

French military and political leader. His journey from Corsica to the imperial throne, wars across Europe and exile on Saint Helena shaped the early nineteenth century.

Peter the GreatPeople
1672–1725

Peter the Great

Peter I is associated with the founding of Saint Petersburg and its major urban project on the Neva. Godfrey Kneller painted his portrait during his visit to England in 1698.

Alexander PushkinPeople
1799–1837

Alexander Pushkin

Russian poet and author of Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman. His life connects Moscow, Saint Petersburg, the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and Mikhailovskoye — places woven into Russian literary history.

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Sergey Lvovich Pushkin

Father of the poet Alexander Pushkin. He served in the military and, after retirement, pursued an interest in poetry.