Alexander Pushkin: The StoriesAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (17991837) was one of Russia's most famous storytellers, poets, novelists and playwrights. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. through his father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin. His matrilineal great grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal who, of African descent, was kidnapped as a child, and later taken to Russia and presented as a gift to Peter the Great, where he was freed, adopted and raised in the Emperor's