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Pushkin Is Our Everything

2014 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ29588620 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pushkin Is Our Everything (Russian: «Пушкин — наше всё», romanized: Pushkin — nashye vsyo) is a 2014 American documentary film directed, written, and produced by Michael Beckelhimer. The film is about life and times of the 19th-century Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin and his lasting influence and legacy on 200 years of Russian history. The name of the film is a set expression in Russian.

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The public source identifies “Pushkin Is Our Everything” as 2014 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pushkin, Everything and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014-06-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pushkin, Everything and film providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29588620. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pushkin Is Our Everything” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.