Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin (graded readers txt) 📗

of the intellectual movement in Russia from the Empress Catherine the Second downwards. It is characterized by a feverish thirst for encyclopaedic knowledge without a corresponding power of assimilation. ↩

The celebrated Persian poet. Pushkin uses the passage referred to as an epigraph to the Fountain of Baktchiserai. It runs thus: “Many, even as I, visited that fountain, but some of these are dead and some have journeyed afar.” Saadi was born in 1189 at Shiraz and was a reputed descendant from Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law. In his youth he was a soldier, was taken prisoner by the Crusaders and forced to work in the ditches of Tripoli, whence he was ransomed by a merchant whose daughter he subsequently married. He did not commence writing till an advanced age. His principal work is the Gulistan, or “Rose Garden,” a work which has been translated into almost every European tongue. ↩

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Eugene Onegin
was published in 1837 by
Alexander Pushkin.
It was translated from Russian in 1881 by
Henry Spalding.

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