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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg.
Aleksandr Pushkin began writing his central masterpiece, the novel in verse Eugene Onegin, in May 1823. He continued to work on the project intermittently until 1831.12