| In this piece[0] "Пушкин - Юрьеву" He refers to himself as "a disfigured descendant of negroes". "А я, повеса вечно праздный, Потомок негров безобразный, Взращённый в дикой простоте…" Also, here's an interesting article about Pushkin with some African Americans claiming him to be one of their own, with examples from 1929 and 1983: https://www.livelib.ru/articles/post/63022-kak-pushkin-stal-... [0] https://ilibrary.ru/text/182/p.1/index.html EDIT: There's also this article exploring his African heritage: https://daily.jstor.org/how-alexander-pushkin-was-inspired-b... |