Microfilm and microfiche contain miniaturized images of pages from printed text such as archival documents, newspapers, magazines, journals, and books.These formats are used to preserve fragile materials and to save space in a library. Microfilm is a spool of 16mm or 35 mm film:Microfiche is a card:icrofilm and microfiche contain miniaturized images of pages from printed text such as archival documents, newspapers, magazines, journals, and books.
Alexander Pushkin, Black Russian poet and novelist. *The birth of Alexander Pushkin in 1799 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black Russian poet and the great-grandson of Abraham Hannibal, an African general and friend of Peter the Great. As a child, Alexander Sergeyvich Pushkin displayed a talent for writing poetry.
âPushkin was the Russian spring. Pushkin was the Russian morning. Pushkin was the Russian Adam.â. A.V. Lunacharsky. From the most remote times there has existed in Russia people of African descent. By far the most famous of all the Blacks in Russian history, however, was Alexander Sergeievich Pushkinâpatriarch of Russian literature. Born in Moscow on May 26, 1799, Pushkin was descended on his motherâs side from Major-General Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibalâan Ethiopian prince who became a favorite of Tsar Peter I (1682-1725).