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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 his literary career while attending the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo. His first poem, a verse epistle titled "To My Friend, the Poet," was published in 1814 in the journal Vestnik Evropy ("The Messenger of Europe").1