The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is widely regarded as Russia’s greatest poet. While the Pushkin family ...

Russian history is a list of famous freemasons, from Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Kutuzov, to the tsars Peter III, Alexander I and Paul I. Despite that heritage, it has been a favourite target ...