Referenced By / Alexander Pushkin

Literature:

• In The Idiot, Aglaya recites Pushkin's poem about the poor knight, not too subtly comparing Myshkin to the knight.
• In a short story "Asja" by Turgenev, Asja misquotes Pushkin, and the hero corrects her.
• In "Clara Milic" by Turgenev, Clara, a young actress, recites Tatyana's letter to Onegin.
• In Young Adult novel The Only One by Slovak author Klara Jarunkova, Olga (the protagonist) has a literature teacher named Pushvin, but the class nicknamed him Pushkin.

Live Action TV:

• In one episode of Gilmore Girls, Rory is showing The Yale to a young girl from her former high school Chilton. The girl says Logan is cute, but Rory, focused on the library, tells her that he's not as cute as Pushkin.

Music:

• When Grimes would perform her song "SCREAM" live, she'd replace Pan's lyrics with Pushkin's poem "Ya Vas Lyubil."

Theatre

• Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila is based on Pushkin's epic poem of the same name.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin is based on Pushkin's novel of the same name. The Queen of Spades, another one of Tchaikovsky's operas, is based on a short story also written by Pushkin.
• Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov is based on Pushkin's play of the same name, although it is more well-known than the play it was based on.
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan is based on Pushkin's fairy tale of the same name.
• Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, which was later adapted into a film, is based on Pushkin's play Mozart and Salieri. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also composed an opera based on Mozart and Salieri.

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