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Alexander Pushkin - Ethiopia's Greatest Gift to Russia.

Pushkin has been called "Ethiop's son: Africa's contribution to Europe's freedom struggles and world literature". He is also Russia's most beloved and greatest poet credited for establishing Russia's modern literature. Pushkin's mother descended from Abraham Petrovich Hannibal, widely believed to be an Ethiopian who served Peter the Great as an army general. Ethiopia has now named a major street in honor of Pushkin and his 200 year anniversary was marked in Addis Ababa in 1999. Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Appiah, eminent scholars at Harvard write that Pushkin honored his African heritage.