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Alexander the Great died at the age of 33, before a series of planned campaigns which would have enlarged his already formidable empire. If Alexander had not died at this time, however, but lived on into old age and continued his military expansion and spreading of Greek Culture, the world would be fundamentally different today….

I was born of Scottish parents in Moscow. I wrote from an early age. A poem I wrote in 1837 on the death of Alexander Pushkin caused my arrest. Much of my work was not published until after my death whereby I received posthumous fame. I had a duel with the son of the French…