Question by boo: Did you know that one of the Greatest Russian Classics-Pushkin-was black?
in all the portrets of his we is painted as “a bit dark skined white guy”. that is such an absurd!!!
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Answer by Sabotel
Yeah Mon, Socrates and Shakespere too.
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Kevin says
Let's clarify… he was of Ethiopian (black African) heritage on his mother's side, and Russian (white) on his father's side.
He was born in Moscow, in 1799, to a father of pure Russian aristocatic blood, and a mother who was the granddaughter of Abram Hannibal, who proclaimed himself to be an African prince. Hannibal was a slave who later became an Engineer and General in the Russian army, and was adopted by the Czar (Peter the Great). Hannibal married a Russan aristocratic woman, who bore Pushkin's grandmother (Maria Alexandrovna Hannibal), who raised Pushkin after his mother's death.
So, his African heritage was 2 generations removed because both his mother and grandmother were mixed race, making him 1/8 Ethiopian. (His grandmother was 1/2 and 1/2, making his mother 1/4 and 3/4, and him 1/8 and 7/8.)
He was, literally, "a bit dark skinned".