Alexander Pushkin commemorated in Baku

/By Azernews/

By Laman Ismayilova

The 217^th anniversary of great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was widely celebrated in Baku on June 6, Azertac reported.

A solemn commemoration event organized by the Sabail District Executive power, Public Association of Solidarity of the Peoples of Azerbaijan "Sodruzhestvo” together with the Russian embassy in Baku and the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo brought together Pushkin's admirers at.

Addressing the event organized in front of the monument to the legendary poet, "Sodruzhestvo” Chairman Tatyana Karimova said that in 2010 the United Nations declared June 6 as International Russian Language Day.

Russia's ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin, in turn, read a poem by national poet Seyid Azim Shirvani, written for the occasion of the unveiling the monument of A. Pushkin in Moscow in 1880.

Then, the kindergarten "Nord" as well as students of Baku schools red the poems and showed scenes based on the works of the poet.

The deputy head of Sabail District Executive power, Eldar Agayev, reminded that the bronze monument of poet, installed in Baku on October 12 in 200, is a gift from the Russian government.

Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His matrilineal great-grandfather was Abraham Petrovich Hannibal, Afro-Russian nobleman and general, who was brought over as a slave from what is now Cameroon.

A.Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen. He wrote about 130 poems between 1814 and 1817, while still at Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

However, A.Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals which led to his transfer from the capital.

Pushkin's two years at Mikhailovskoye (1824–1826) were extremely rich in poetic output. At this period, he composed many poetic dramas set to music as well as humorous tale in verse entitled Count Nulin. In addition, he wrote the first three chapters of Eugene Onegin, and composed the tragedy Boris Godunov. A legendary poet died at age 37 after being forced into a duel.

Azerbaijani poet Mirza Fatali Akhundov was one of the first who responded to the death of the poet. "Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin" is an elegy of Azerbaijani author Mirza Fatali Akhundov, composed in 1837 in Persian.

The works of Pushkin were translated into Azerbaijani language by such great Azerbaijani poets and writers as Mammad Said Ordubadi, Mammad Rahim, Mikayil Mushfig, Suleyman Rustamov and others.