''Young Pushkin'' is a 1937 Soviet

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directed by

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. It portrays the youth of the Russian

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Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

Cast

* Valentin Litovsky as Alexander Pushkin Рецензия Н. Н. Ефимова
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Wilhelm Küchelbecker Wilhelm Ludwig von Küchelbecker (; in St. Petersburg – in Tobolsk) was a Russian Romantic poet and Decembrist revolutionary of German descent. Life Born into a Baltic German noble family, he spent his childhood in what is now Estonia a ...

* Alexander Muruzin as

Ivan Pushchin Ivan Ivanovich Pushchin (Russian:Иван Иванович Пущин; 15 May 1798, Moscow — 15 April 1859, Bronnitsky Uyezd) was a Russian civil servant and Decembrist. In school, he became a close friend of the writer, Alexander Pushkin, due to ...

* Konstantin Smirnov as Mikhail Yakovlev *

Oleg Lipkin Oleg (), Oleh (), or Aleh () is an East Slavic given name. The name is very common in Russia, Ukraine, and Belаrus. Origins ''Oleg'' derives from the Old Norse ''Helgi'' ( Helge), meaning "holy", "sacred", or "blessed". The feminine equival ...

Anton Delvig Baron Anton Antonovich Delvig ( – ) was a Russian poet and journalist of Baltic German descent. Early life Anton Delvig was born on . He was of Baltic German descent. He studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum together with Alexander Pushkin ...

* Cheslav Sushkevich as

Alexander Gorchakov Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Горчако́в; 15 July 1798 – 11 March 1883) was a Russian diplomat and statesman from the Gorchakov princely family. He has an enduring reput ...

Vladimir Gardin Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin 28 May 1965, born Blagonravov)
Great Soviet EncyclopediaValentina Ivashova Valentina Semyonovna Ivashova (, ; 1915–1991) was a Soviet film actress.Sadoul & Morris p.6 She was sometimes credited as Vera Ivashova. Selected filmography * '' The Nightingale'' (1936) * '' Young Pushkin'' (1937) * ''Alexander Nevsky'' (1938 ...

as Natasha * Nina Shaternikova as Princess * Alexander Mgebrov as

Gavrila Derzhavin Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (, ; 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Although his works are traditionally considered literary classicis ...

, the poet * Ippolit Novskiy as Count Razumovsky, the Minister of Education *

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as Foma * Valentin Yantsat as Alexander Petrovich Kunitsyn, Professor of Law * Emil Gal as De-Boudrie * Georgy Kranert as

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* Sergey Karnovich-Valois as

Aleksey Arakcheyev Count Alexey Andreyevich Arakcheyev or Arakcheev (; b. in Garusovo – d. in Gruzino) was an Imperial Russian general and statesman during the reign of Tsar Alexander I. He served under Tsars Paul I and Alexander I as an army commander an ...

References

Bibliography

* Kevin Bartig. ''Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film''. Oxford University Press, 2013.

External links

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