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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg.
During his childhood, Aleksandr Pushkin learned to speak and read in French, as his parents adopted French culture common among aristocratic families in early 19th-century Russia. Additionally, he learned Russian through stories told by his maternal grandmother and the folktales shared by his nurse, Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva.1