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   Oct 15, 2020 · Pushkin’s great-grandfather was a Black African, captured by slave traders in the region of present-day Cameroon, and sold in 1704 at the age of seven or eight to Russia’s inventive and ambitious Tsar Peter I, known as Peter the Great.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Abram_Petrovich_GannibalAbram Petrovich Gannibal - Wikipedia

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   Abram Petrovich [a] Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov ( Russian: Абра́м Петро́вич Ганниба́л; c. 1696 – 14 May 1781 [1] ), was a Russian Chief Military Engineer, General-in-Chief, and nobleman of African origin.

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   Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. She was the daughter of Ossip Abramovich Gannibal (1744–1807) and his wife, Maria Alekseyevna Pushkina (1745–1818).

4. worldhistoryedu.com › abram-petrovich-gannibalAbram Petrovich Gannibal: The African prince who became one ...

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   Feb 1, 2023 · by World History Edu · February 1, 2023. Abram Petrovich Gannibal – History and Legacy of the Black African slave who became a general in the Russian army. Abram Petrovich Gannibal’s life was nothing short of extraordinary. Enslaved in Africa and sent to Moscow, he gained the favor of Tsar Peter the Great and rose to become one of the best ...

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5. face2faceafrica.com › article › the-history-of-howThe history of how Black people first arrived in Russia

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   Mar 1, 2022 · Mildred Europa Taylor March 01, 2022. Historians say that this is the portrait of Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Image via Wiki. Imperial Russia, one of the largest empires that thrived from 1720 to...

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6. face2faceafrica.com › article › meet-alexanderAlexander Pushkin,Russian poet and great-grandson of ...

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   May 26, 2019 · Ossip’s daughter, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal married Sergei Lvovich Pushkin, a Russian nobility, and had Alexander on May 26, 1799.

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   Who is Russia's 'Great Captain' and 'purchased Negro'?

   • The ‘great captain’ is Tsar Peter the Great, and Abram Gannibal is the ‘purchased negro’ who rose to high status in Peter’s nation. Sadly, despite the inclusiveness of Soviet rhetoric on race, Russia’s engagement with Black nations and individuals since Pushkin’s time has been marred by Cold War power games and casual racism.

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   Who were the first black Americans to visit Russia?

   • In 1809 when John Quincy Adams arrived in St. Petersburg as the United States Minister to Russia, the first Black Americans appeared at the Imperial Court, according to the report by Russia Beyond. Among those first Black Americans was Nancy Prince, who followed her husband to Russia after he had taken a job with the Russian palace guard.

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   Who was Alexander Pushkin?

   • Today, he is best known as being the great-grandfather of the renowned Russian novelist and poet, Alexander Pushkin, as well as starting the family line of several modern-day British nobles and aristocrats. Read on to learn more about the life of the African slave who rose to become one of Russia’s most prominent figures in the 18th century.

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   Did Pushkin have a black ancestry?

   • Pushkin was very conscious of his Black ancestry; his poems reveal fierce pride in and fascination with his heritage. Sometimes he lamented negative traits he associated with Black identity – usually ugliness or wildness – but he clearly valued the qualities of freedom and difference which he also saw as integral to Abram Gannibal.

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8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pyotr_Ilyich_TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia

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   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [n 1] ( / tʃaɪˈkɒfski / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current ...