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After graduating, Pushkin worked at the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg before being transferred due to his liberal poetry. He spent time in Crimea, where he fell in love with Yelizaveta Vorontsov, leading to conflicts with her husband and his eventual exile to Mikhailovskoe. During this exile, he wrote significant works including Boris Godunov and Eugene Onegin, influenced by local folk tales and personal experiences.

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Bunyn - копия

After graduating, Pushkin worked at the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg before being transferred due to his liberal poetry. He spent time in Crimea, where he fell in love with Yelizaveta Vorontsov, leading to conflicts with her husband and his eventual exile to Mikhailovskoe. During this exile, he wrote significant works including Boris Godunov and Eugene Onegin, influenced by local folk tales and personal experiences.

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After graduating from Lyceum Pushkin was given a position at the Collegium of Foreign

Affairs in St. Petersburg. For three years he led a carefree life immersed in Petersburg
society and its diversions. At this period he also wrote many romantic poems influenced
by Byron, and in 1820 published his first long poem Ruslan and Ludmila. Some of his
poetry seemed too liberal for Tsar Alexander I, and Pushkin was transferred from
Petersburg to the south of Russia, first to Kishinev in Moldova and then to Odessa in
Crimea, where he spent the years of 1820-1824. This period is known as the Romantic
period in Pushkin’s poetry. At that time he wrote his long poems The Prisoner of
Caucasus (Кавка´зский пле´нник), The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Бахчисарайский
фонтан), Robber Brothers (Бра´тья Разбо´йники), of which only fragments remain,
and began The Gypsies (Цыга´ны).

While in Crimea Pushkin fell in love with Yelizaveta Vorontsov, the wife of count
Vorontsov who was the governor of the Crimean region at that time. The relationship
between Puhskin and Vorontsov was difficult from the beginning, and Vorontsov’s
jelousy only made it more acrimonious. Vorontsov began to persecute Pushkin who was
under his supervision. Pushkin was asking for resignation, and finally after the censors
intercepted one of Pushkin’s letters where he wrote about his interest in “atheist
teachings” (for more see Yuri Lotman’s biography of Pushkin), he was dismissed from
his service at Vorontsov’s office in Odessa and exiled to his estate Mikhailovskoe near
Pskov where he spent the period of 1824-1826. There he wrote Boris Godunov,
continued to work on The Gypsies and Eugene Onegin and wrote many love poems,
among which is the famous «Я по´мню чу´дное мгнове´нье…» dedicated to Anna
Kern, who was visiting her aunt and and Pushkin's neighbor and friend Praskovia
Osipova at at a nearby estate of Trigorskoe. In the evenings Pushkin listened to many
folk tales of his nanny Arina Rodionovna who became the prototype of Tatyana’s nanny
in Eugene Onegin. Pushkin’s poem «Зи´мний ве´чер» describes one of those evenings.

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