Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский; 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1787 – 24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1852) 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.
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Russian poetry, Translations into Russian, History, Poetry, Russian literature, Correspondence, History and criticism, Russian Authors, Russian Poets, Sources, Autobiography/Memoirs/Letters (Philology), Bible, Biography, Borodino, Battle of, Borodino, Mozhaĭskiĭ raĭon, Russia, 1812, Campaigns, Children's literature, Russian, Children's poetry, Russian, Criticism and interpretation, Critics, Death and burial, Description and travel, Epic poetry, European fiction, Fairy tales, French poetryPlaces
Russia, 1812 Borodino, Battle of, Borodino, Mozhaĭskiĭ raĭon, Russia, 1831 Grochów, Battle of, Warsaw, Poland, Poland, Soviet Union, Tulʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia), Warsaw (Poland)People
Vasiliĭ Andreevich Zhukovskiĭ (1783-1852), Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), Anna Petrovna Zontag, Avdotʹi︠a︡ Petrovna Elagina (1789-1877), Elizaveta Zhukovskaia (1820?-1856. [from old catalog]), Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii (1783-1852)Time
19th century, 18th century, Nicholas I, 1825-1855, 1801-1917, 20th century, Revolution, 1830-1832ID Numbers
- OLID: OL82642A
- ISNI: 0000000121187474
- VIAF: 5050093
- Wikidata: Q157623
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q157623
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- Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii
- V. A. Zhukovskiĭ
- V. A. Zhukovskīĭ
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