Word: liudmila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose and lips, long gilt fingernails, he was not handsome, but his bursting energy made him popular with a fast young set who called him "Cricket" and "Spark." Drinking, drabbing, dicing and duelling filled his nights and days. On the side, he wrote a six-canto poem, Ruslan and Liudmila, many a dangerously political verse. The Tsar's police soon had him under surveillance, but were never able to prove that he was a member of any secret society. And in fact he never was. But his scurrilous verses offended the Tsar, who had him "transferred" (Pushkin was technically...