Vasily Zhukovsky
Poet, Author
1783 – 1852
Who was Vasily Zhukovsky?
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.
Zhukovsky is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement into Russia. The main body of his literary output consists of free translations covering an impressively wide range of poets, from ancients like Ferdowsi and Homer to his contemporaries Goethe, Schiller, Byron, and others. Many of his translations have become classics of Russian literature, better-written and more enduring in Russian than in their original languages.
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- Born
- Jan 29, 1783
Tula - Parents
- Spouses
- Elisabeth von Reitern
(1841 - )
- Elisabeth von Reitern
- Children
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Lived in
- Baden-Baden
- Tula
- Died
- Apr 12, 1852
Baden-Baden
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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