Vasily Zhukovsky, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1783

Date of Death: 24-Apr-1852

Profession: writer, poet, translator, literary critic, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Vasily 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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Description	Russian portrait painter
Date of birth/death	13 March 1782 (in Julian calendar)	5 October 1836 (in Julian calendar)
Location of birth/death	Q15613291	Rome
Work location	Saint Petersburg, Rome
Authority control	: Q367120 VIAF: 84097348 ISNI: 0000 0001 1680 1927 ULAN: 500022586 LCCN: n82011745 Open Library: OL4864361A WorldCat