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By T. J. Binyon. Knopf. 727 pp. $35
In the view of his friend Nikolai Gogol, the poet Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was "an extraordinary and perhaps unique manifestation of the Russian spirit." And not only that: Gogol believed that Pushkin was "the Russian man in his ultimate development, as he, perhaps, will be in 200 years." This isn't necessarily a fate to be wished upon anyone, though, for as T. J. Binyon's magnificent biography makes plain, the apparently manic-depressive, womanizing, jealous, attention-deficient Pushkin chose, or...
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