Pushkin fandom

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I'd forgotten I used to have such a passion for Pushkin. All the symptoms of teenage fandom, with hindsight: I was hankering after Collected Editions, translating poems, failing to write essays because I was busy reading in Russian(!), reading historical novels and literary critiques about him and bringing his work into all sorts of unrelated conversations, and feeling immense excitement when someone else in England had actually heard of him. Exactly the way people behave over mangas or superheroes nowadays.

Funny how all that enthusiasm can simply be wiped away or redirected. I mean, I understand how it happened, but it seems in hindsight like somebody else's parallel life -- the person I might have been. The person I was probably intended to be.

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A quick check suggests that there are "Eugene Onegin" fics on AO3 at least (a lot of Lensky/Onegin slash, plus the odd fix-it), plus a Pushkin/Lermonov real-person-slash fic on Livejournal :-(


I actually own a copy of Ivan Novikov's "Pushkin v izgnanii", which I was reading avidly at the point when I was limited to getting it out of the library for one week at a time -- I never did finish it and haven't looked at it in twenty-five years.