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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg.
In his early verse, Aleksandr Pushkin followed the styles of his older contemporaries, the Romantic poets K.N. Batyushkov and V.A. Zhukovsky. Additionally, he was influenced by French poets of the 17th and 18th centuries, most notably the Vicomte de Parny.1