Vasily Pushkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian poet
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1766
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 20-Aug-1830
Profession: poet
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Vasily Pushkin
- Vasily Lvovich Pushkin (Russian: ????´??? ????´??? ??´????; 27 April 1766 – 20 August 1830) was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin. Vasily Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russian Empire.
- During his early years, he served in Russia's Leib Guard Izmailovo Regiment, retiring with the rank of poruchik.
- Between 1803 and 1804 Pushkin lived abroad, mainly in Paris. Pushkin was a neoclassical poet and was indifferent to the then-popular romantic movement.
- In his poem "Captain Khrabrov", Pushkin mocked romanticism.
- He was a follower of light poetry, and wrote numerous songs, epistles, and epigrams in the manner of Horace, Tibullus, or Catullus.
- He also translated several poems of La Fontaine and other French poets. Vasily Lvovich had a sudden burst of creativity in 1810 and 1811, when he wrote his best polemical verse, including a humorous masterpiece, A Dangerous Neighbour (1811), set in a bawdyhouse.
- Buyanov, the main character of the poem, became a household name; Alexander Pushkin mentioned him in Eugene Onegin.
- Pushkin the younger did not take his uncle's poetry seriously; at the age of 22 he apprehended that the posterity will ascribe A Dangerous Neighbour to his own juvenilia: All his works are not worth his Buyanov; and what will happen to him in posterity? I'm extremely afraid that my cousin [i.e., Buyanov] will be taken for my son...
- [Pushkin's letter to Peter Vyazemsky, 2 January 1822].Due to interest in his nephew, Vasily Pushkin's works were re-published numerous times; the last and most complete collection is "V.
- L.
- Pushkin.
- Poems", M.
- Hyperion, 2005.
- ISBN 5-89332-104-9.
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