Pushkin is known as "наше всё" (our everything) and fundamentally shaped the modern Russian language. His great-grandfather was from Africa. Pushkin was bad at math in school, but extremely talented in literature. At that time,

Ukrainian has distinct characteristics, particularly in how "i" and "h" sounds are pronounced. Ukrainian accent of Russian is quite noticeable, though not all Ukrainians speak with it. Borscht, a soup very popular in East Slavic,