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Duchess hardly Pushkin her luck.(News)

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From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: 20030709
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Byline: IAN STARRETT

THE Duchess of Abercorn is very well connected - literally.

For her great-great-great-grandfather was Alexander Pushkin, Russia's finest poet.

Her lineage to literature giant Pushkin stems from her paternal grandmother, who was the daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia and great ...

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