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The poet who was Russia George Walden praises a masterful biography of Alexander Pushkin

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20020908
Author:GEORGE WALDEN

Pushkin

by T. J. Binyon

HarperCollins, pounds 30, 688 pp

pounds 26 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

MANY DIFFERENT styles are viable for biographers, as for novelists. W. Jackson Bate's Dr Johnson is the best biography I have read, and it adopts an empathetic approach. Although T. J. Binyon is a well-known Russian scholar he is far more detached from his subject, and yet his Pushkin is one of the great biographies of recent times.

"Scholarly" and "engrossing" are often antonyms, yet such is Binyon's skill in presenting his phenomenal research, and so patiently does he build up the reader's ...

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