In the 1820's, a great literary author was emerging in Russia. Alexander Sengeevich Pushkin, with his varied style of writing, soon became a leader in Russian literature. "His completed masterpieces rank among the best not only in Russian but in world literature of the nineteenth century" (Debreczeny, Paul). In the years he was developing as an author, the art of prose writing had no great accomplishments. With new writers, trends, and the growth of readership …showed first 75 words of 1196 total…

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