It was not Pushkin who made Pushkin relevant. It was putin who made Pushkin relevant – Portnikov

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I've spent the last several months with #Pushkin, his classic novel in verse Eugene Onegin, especially #Nabokov's translation and then all 1000 pages of his notes and commentary - and it has been an amazing intellectual and spiritual journey. Highly recommend.