?Rereading Pushkin Through the Gospel

Russians call him the sun of their poetry. English readers mostly know him as a name on a spine.Pushkin read Voltaire as a schoolboy, kept a list of the women he had loved, and died at thirty-seven with a bullet in his stomach after a duel over gossip about his wife. And in his stories, nobody is saved. Onegin has everything and yawns. Hermann ends in room 17 of an asylum, muttering three cards. Y...