On 6 June 1799, Pushkin, the Russian poet and founder of realism, was born in Moscow into a noble family.
A bright young man who loved literature, Pushkin learned to write poetry at the age of seven or eight, and at the age of 12 he entered the Imperial Village School in Petersburg, and at the age of 15, as a secondary school student, he wrote a poem entitled "To a Friend" which he sent to the Europa Herald, edited by the famous poet Zhukovsky. The poem was so brilliant that Zhukovsky appreciated it and immediately published it, visiting the "young talent" at the Imperial School. Immediately after his visit, Zhukovsky wrote to his poet friend Vyasemsky with great enthusiasm, saying: "This is the hope of our poetry world. We must unite and help this future genius to grow. He will certainly surpass all of us in the future." In 1820, when Pushkin was 21, his first long narrative poem Ruslan Lyudmila was published and immediately shook the Russian literary world. Rukovsky presented him with a photograph with great joy. The photo read, "For the student who has triumphed. Presented by the defeated teacher."
Zhukovsky was a great success, and Pushkin was indeed a literary genius. He lived only 38 years, and in his short life he left an extremely rich literary legacy to humanity. Among them are the Romantic narrative poem "Tzigane", the poetic novel "Evgeny Onegin", the short story "The Postmaster", the historical novel "The Captain's Daughter" and a large number of short lyrical poems, which have long been familiar to people all over the world. The revolutionary mentor Marx was so interested in Yevgeny Onegin that he used it as a textbook for his own Russian studies.