Aleksandr Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era. Born into the nobility in Moscow, he published his first poem at fifteen and was widely recognized by the time he left the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Many consider him the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. The Snow-storm is one of the five Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, which he wrote in 1830. He was killed in a duel at the age of thirty seven.