'Portrait of Alexandr Sergeyevich Pushkin', 1827, (1965). Russian Romantic poet and author Pushkin (1799-1837) died from wounds that he suffered in a duel. The statuette of a muse in the background hints at the subject's poetic calling. Pushkin wears a plaid cloak in a reference to Lord Byron, the acknowledged poetic genius of Europe. Painting in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]
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