Quadroon
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In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a Quadroon or Quarteron was a person with one-quarter Sub-Saharan African or Indigenous Australian ancestry, and three-quarters European ancest
1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting in the centre a quadroon child.
James Townsend (centre), who was an Octoroon
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian liter
Quadroon
…equivalent to one biracial grandparent; in other words, one African great-grandparent and seven European great-grandparents. An example was Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Octoroon was applied to a limited extent in Australia for those of one-eighth Aboriginal ancestry, as the government implemented assimilation policies…
![Portrait [ru] by Orest Kiprensky, 1827](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Orest_Kiprensky_-_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%90.%D0%A1.%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/500px-Orest_Kiprensky_-_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%90.%D0%A1.%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Portrait [ru] by Orest Kiprensky, 1827
Coat of arms of the Pushkin family
![Pushkin in his youth, by Sergey Chirikov [ru]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/%D0%A1._%D0%93._%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_-_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD_%28%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%29.jpg/500px-%D0%A1._%D0%93._%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_-_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD_%28%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%29.jpg)
Pushkin in his youth, by Sergey Chirikov [ru]
Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva (1758 - August 12, 1828) at ages 70, the serf of Hannibal family and nanny of Alexander Pushkin.