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Russia's Literary Genius Alexander Pushkin: The Great-Grandson of an African Slave

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From: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
Date: 20000430
Author:Lounsbery, Anne

Lounsbery, Anne
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
04-30-2000
Russia's Literary Genius Alexander Pushkin: The Great-Grandson of an
African Slave

ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837), founding father and gold
standard of Russian literature, is the most Russian of Russian writers. But
he is also the descendant of an African slave. Pushkin's great-grandfather,
Avram Petrovitch Gannibal, was probably born in what is now Cameroon, just
south of Lake Chad. (Some have located his birthplace in northern Africa,
but recent research suggests otherwise.) By his own account, he was the son
of a ...

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