Question by : If Pushkin was african, why do russians protray him as a white man?
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Do Russians have a problem with their only successful poet, and the Shakespeare of the Russian language being non-Russian or something?
Surely with as much African blood as Pushkin had he would not have had brown hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. right? this video portrays this Russian man as black.
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Answer by Nancy Pelosi 2016
Only his great-grandfather Abram Petrovich was African. Petrovich’s second wife (Pushkin’s great-grandmother) was Swedish-German.
So Pushkin was only 1/16th African by descent.
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Vasily says
Pushkin was 1/16th black, so despite him having African very curly hair, he was a white man. I think this whole post is incorrect, ask any African about Russia and they will all praise Russia as the only white nation that treats blacks as equals
Anemona says
because he had white skin, is it that hard to understand? or are you stupide?
Антон says
Michael, as it is known, representatives of the sixth generation of any ancestor, shall inherit the minimum genes of the ancestor, so that no genetic study will not be able to identify the relationship with the ancestor of the representatives of the seventh generation. And although Pushkin was only a third generations of his african ancestor, the genetic influence of that ancestor on the phenotype of the Pushkin was very weak.
In addition the relationship of Pushkin with his african great-grandfather went through the maternal line. But on the paternal line, as shown недавнии genetic research, Pushkin is clean slav “aryan” – the carrier of haplogroups R1a.
Cossak says
I saw in one show family who searched their black dad who left them in 1980’s. So his belorussian daughters was not black and had lighter skin,only nose structure reminded about african roots. In Pushkin’s case theres african great grandpa,so of course he looked far from the african type.