Pushkin is the most important Russian writer of all time, like Shakespeare in England . Pushkin provided the standards for Russian arts. Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 . In 1811 he entered a lyceum at Tsarskoye Solo. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His great-grandfather from his mother's side – Abram Gannibal – was brought over as a slave from Africa and had risen to become an aristocrat.[8] Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
