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I wouldn't say that Pushkin was black, but he was absolutely mixed. His great-grandfather was a former African slave in the Ottoman court, purchased by Russians to bring to Peter the Great. That makes Pushkin 1/8 African.
One of Pushkin's daughters (who was 1/16 black).
https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/Ivan-Kosmich-Makarov/730633/Portrait-of-Natalia-Alexandrovna-Pushkina%2C-Countess-of-Merenberg-1836-1913%2C-Daughter-of-poet%2C-1849-.html
Genetics are fascinating. One of my friends had a black African dad and an English mom and he looked like, slightly tanner than an average Euro and with slightly crinklier hair than an average Euro.
OTOH, I've known similar mixes who look almost 100% African as well.