Editing Alexander Pushkin (section)

==Early life==
Born in Moscow, Pushkin was entrusted to nursemaids and French tutors, and spoke mostly French until the age of ten. He became acquainted with the Russian language through communication with household serfs and his nanny, Arina Rodionovna, whom he loved dearly and to whom he was more attached than to his own mother.

He published his first poem at the age of 15. When he finished school, as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum|Imperial Lyceum]] in [[Tsarskoye Selo]], near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized on the Russian literary scene. At the Lyceum, he was a student of David Mara, known in Russia as {{ill|David de Boudry|fr}}, a younger brother of French revolutionary [[Jean-Paul Marat]].<ref name="Goetz">{{cite news|url=http://docplayer.fr/14907605-Jean-paul-marat-notice-generale-etapes-de-vie-action-journaux-livres-theorie-politique.html|author=Goëtz-Nothomb, Charlotte|language=fr|page=9|title=Jean-Paul Marat - Notice Generale}}</ref> After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of St. Petersburg, which was then the capital of the [[Russian Empire]]. In 1820, he published his first long poem, ''[[Ruslan and Ludmila]]'', with much controversy about its subject and style.