 focusing not on a musician, but on a poet, Alexander Pushkin. How important was he to Russian history? Well, he wrote the stories on which the following operas were based, for example, Ruslan Ilumila, Boris Kudinov, Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades, Alieko, the list goes on and on. Enormously important in the history of Russian literature, said to be the greatest of all Russian poets.