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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050925
Author:Jonathan Heawood

Throughout his work, Alexander Pushkin mused on the improbable life of his great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, known throughout Russia as 'the Tsar's Moor' or 'the Negro of Peter the Great'. Gannibal, who figures now only in the margins of literary history, was one of the most exotic Russians in a century that was full of surprises. Having been delivered into the hands of Peter the Great via an Ottoman slave ship, a harem in Constantinople and a spymaster ancestor of Tolstoy's, he rose through the ranks of Russian society to become one of Peter's closest confidants, a celebrated ...

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