Under The Sky Of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin And Blackness

Under The Sky Of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin And BlacknessA wide ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to

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