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Napoleon By Alexander Pushkin

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Alexander Pushkin poem “Napoleon,” offers not only an image of the French Ruler and Emperor, but also offers a representation of that time period, filled with a great diversity of world altering events. Pushkin creates conditions of objectivity around the hero in front of the tomb: “A wondrous fate is now fulfilled, Forever extinguished this grand man.” Napoleon is always associated with military campaigns, bloody battles, struggles and suffering. But Pushkin does not belittle him for this, but lets the supreme will of a Providence pacify her mutinous hero. “O hero, with whose bloodied story Long, long the earth will still resound,” To Pushkin, Napoleon’s bigger than life personality appears as a natural need of the time; Napoleon’s campaigns
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