Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.

You read Pushkin.

You read Captain's Daughter by Pushkin.

ls this from Pushkin? Well, of course.

Nevertheless, but Pushkin was muddled, please wipe this.

After all, Pushkin and Gogol originally grew out of German and French models, although their sheer originality left the mimicry far behind. But Russia is simply not as good at copying practical things like laws and economic models as it is at transforming cultural impulses into works of art with a Russian soul.

Alexander Pushkin, Nicolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were all suspicious of the Poles, calling them cold, distant, and manipulative, and seeing Poland as always on the side of the West, rather than standing with its Slavic brothers. Indeed, Pushkin s friendship with Adam Mickiewicz ended in acrimony over the 1830 Polish insurrection against Tsarist rule.

We frequently met at conferences, where it was always a delight to hear him speak Russian a Russian that had the accent and elegance of Tolstoi and Pushkin, not the degraded Russian bark of Vladimir Putin. Like Király, in 1956, Kolakowski turned against the Communist party he had once joined in the hope, formed in the charnel house that the Nazis had wrought in Poland, that it would build a better world.