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,
Cossack music is associated with the Kuban, Don, and Terek Cossacks in today's southern Russia, as well as with Cossack traditions in Ukraine. Songs often use a simple, repetitive melody, with the final lines repeated
