The greatest Russian poet and writer, the founder of the new Russian literature, the Creator of the Russian literary language. He graduated from the Tsarskoselsky (Alexandrovsky) Lyceum (1817). Was close to the Decembrists. In 1820 under the guise of official move was exiled to the South (Ekaterinoslav, the Caucasus, Crimea, Chisinau, Odessa). In 1824 dismissed from service and exiled to the village of Mikhailovskoye under police surveillance until 1826. Died of wounds received in a duel.