Driver, Sam. Pushkin; Literature and Social Ideas. Columbia Univeristy Press: New York, 1989.
Raeff, Marc. The Decembrist Movement. Prentice-Hall, Inc.: Englewood, New Jersey: 1966.
Sandler, Stephanie. Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile. Stanford University Press, Stanford: 1989.
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Twayne Publishers Inc: New York, 1970.
Introduction:
Self-portrait: http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russian/bulgakov/public_html/ASPushkin.html
Portrait of Pushkin by Orest Kiprensky: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/kiprensky-pushkin.html
Aristocratic Background:
The Lycee at Tsarkoe Selo: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/staff/stephy/Photos1.html
Pushkin at Tsarskoe Selo: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/repin-pushkin.html
Politics in Literature:
Painting of the Bronze Horseman chasing Eugene: http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=a_pushkin
Political Position:
Pushkin Monument: http://users.abac.com/gregoryo/mycity/other/page8.html
Memoirs of A. E. Rozen: More information on the Decembrists
Position Paper on the Decemebrists
The Schiller Institute : Some Pushkin poems
PBS Frontline: Pushkin's Geneology
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