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Russian literary giant Pushkin labelled as a peddler of porn

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20050130
Author:MURDO MacLEOD

HE IS the all-time giant of Russian literature, who shaped the literary heritage of the world's biggest country.

But now Alexander Pushkin's legacy is in danger of being tainted by an argument over whether some of his early work is pornographic, and whether his 'adult verses' even came from the pen of the 'National Poet'.

A collection of his poems has been seized by Russian police as part of a crack-down on "obscene" literature. The move has horrified the nation's literati in a country where serious literature is a serious business and popular with the masses. Only last week, Moscow's ...

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