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Alexander Pushkin – Russia’s greatest letter-writer

Intimate, earthy and uninhibited, Pushkin’s letters, collected together, read like a novel and give an encyclopaedic view of 19th-century Russian life

Clemmie Read
Portrait of Alexander Pushkin, by Orest Adamovich Kiprensky. Getty Images
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  • Letters: Annotated, Authoritive Edition

    Alexander Pushkin, translated and edited by Professor Thomas Shaw

    Alma Classics, pp. 880, £20

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