b'BLACK HISTORYfrom the Publisher\'s Library: "International library of Negro Life and History"The Grandfather of Russias Greatest PoetA bram Hannibal 1697 - 1782, grand- Hannibal, however, elected to remain fatherofRussia\'sgreatestpoet,inRussia.AslongasTsarPeter AleksanderPushkin,lived, Hnnibal enjoyed was captured in Africahisfavorandspon-andwassoldasansorship;butafterthe enslaved person on thedeath of Peter his good Constantinoplemarketfortune waned.Queen to a Russian nobleman.Catherine and Peter II At the age of eight, heexiled him to Siberia. was given to Tsar PeterThe punishment was theGreat,whogrewharshandunendur-fondofhimandsawable.Heattemptedto1.Maverick City X Kirk5.Bishop Leonard Scott - toitthathewasedu- escape but was recap- Franklin - Kingdom Keep Hymns Alivecatedandbaptizedintured and returned. InBook One 6.Trip Lee - The EndtheRussianOrthodox1741,hewassaved2.Marvin Sapp - SubstanceChurch.by Elizabeth of Russia,7.Anne Wilson - My JesusWhenhecompletedwhopardonedhim3.Tauren Wells - Joy In The8.Canton Spirituals - hisschooling,hewentandreinstatedhimtoMorning Hallelujah Anyhowwith Tsar Peter to Paris,Abram Hannibal high rank in the army.4.Malaco 50 Year9.Elevation - Lionwherehestudiedmili- HewasgivenmanyCelebration - Various Artist 10 Tamela Mann - Overcomertaryengineering.Hannibalremainedresponsibilitiesanddutiestocarry in France for seven years. He becameout in the name of his new ruler. In afavoriteoftheDucd`Orleansandtheboundary-linedisputebetween was permitted to join the French army.SwedenandRussia,Hannibalwas TheDucd`Orleanstriedtopersuadecommissioned to represent Russia in him to remain in France, but Hannibalsettling the issue. chokse to return to his adopted land ofAs an engineer, he was appointed a Russia so that he might serve the Tsarmember of the staff to inspect Russia`s as an engineer lieutenant.armyfortificationsandtheconstruc-In the meantime, his family in Africation of the Logoda Canal. Shortly before had discovered that he was in the ser- he died, Hannibal was appointed com-vice of the Tsar, and his brother trav- mandant of the city of Reval now called eled to Russia and requested Peter toTallinn. allow Hannibal to return to his family. Russia\'s Greatest PoetA leksanderPushkin1799-1837,Placingthelanguageofhispeople Russia`sgreatestpoet,wastheamong the world\'s important languag-great-grandson of the African enslavedes, Pushkin cried out for freedom and AbramHannibal,whowasahigh- protestedbondageandserfdom.He rankingmilitaryengineerunderTsarbecamethespokesmanforthepoor PetertheGreat.Pushkin`smother,and oppressed, to the alarm and con-NadezkdaOsipovna,marriedSergeycern of the Tsar and the nobilityHis LvovichPushkin,amemberofthepoem "Ode to Liberty" created so much Russian nobility.uneasinessamongtherulingpow-BorninMoscow,Aleksanderwasers that Pushkin was exiled from St. humiliatedbyhisfamilybecausehePerersburg to southern Russia where, wasafat,shy,awk- ironicall,hewrotesomeofhisfinest wardlyunattractiveworks.child.ItwasnurseAfterwritingThe Arina,afreedserfinConversationbetween thePushkinhouse- the Bookseller and the hold,whogaveaffec- PoetandTheGypsies, tiontotheneglectedhebeganEugene child.Onegin,hismaster-Her influence on thepiece.Aftersixyears, youngpoetwasasTsar Nicholas pardoned importantasthefor- him and allowed him to mal education that hereturn to St. Petersburg, received, for she taughton condition that all of himaboutRussianhis works be approved folklore,thecadencesbeforepublication. and deep significancesEventhoughPushkin oftheRussianlan- Aleksander Pushkin was restricted, he con-guageandthedesti- tinued to produce poet-tuteconditionsofthetroubledpeas- ry,plays,storiesand ants.Hehadaseriesoftutorsandnovels. alsoreadeverythingavailableinhisTwoofhisnovelswereconvert-father\'s library.edintooperas:BorisGodunovby He attended a private school for sixMussorgskiandEugeneOneginby years, but did not attract any attentionTchaikovsky.His most popular poem, until the day of final examinations. On"The Fisherman and the Fish," appears thatoccasion,whenyoungPushkininmanyprimaryschoolreadersin wascalledupontorecitehisorigi- English; The Golden Cockerel is a fairy nal verses, the amazed and delightedtale of beauty and fancy; the lengthy Dershavin, foremost of Russian poets,historicalnoveltheTheCaptain\'s predictedthatsomedayPushkinDaughter, considered by some critics wouldreplacehiminRussianliter- tobehisgreatestwork,isthestory ary circles. With youthful enthusiasm,of the peasants~revolt. On the100th the young poet took the Russian lan- anniversaryofthepoet\'sdeath,the guage and shaped it into a beautifulSovietgovernmentfounditexpedi-andpowerfulmediumofexpression.ent to publish the complete works of Heretofore, French had been the lan- PushkinintheLiteraryHeritageof guage of Russian literature.Pushkin.BODY OF CHRIST NEWS JULY 2022 7'