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'Svetlana' - Alexander Novoskoltsev. First published in the journal Vestnik Evropy, 1813, No. 1 and 2, with the subtitle: "To Al. An. Pr...va." Dedicated to Zhukovsky's niece and student Aleksandra Andreevna Voeikova (who was the sister of the poet's muse M.A.Protasova-Moyer ), as a wedding gift to her.
Zhukovsky was born on 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1783 in the village of Mishenskoe in the Tula Governorate of the Russian Empire.He was the illegitimate son of a landowner named Afanasi Bunin and his Turkish housekeeper Salkha, [2] [3] who had been captured during the siege of Bender in 1770 and brought to Russia as a slave.
" (Russian: Боже, Царя храни!, IPA: [ˈboʐɨ tsɐˈrʲa xrɐˈnʲi]) was the national anthem of the Russian Empire. The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833 and was first performed on 18 December 1833. It was composed by violinist Alexei Lvov, with lyrics written by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky.
The Giant Cockroach or The Roach (as translated by Miriam Morton, 1958 [1]) or Cock-The-Roach (as translated by Tom Botting, 1981 [2]), also popularly known by its Russian name Tarakanishche (lit. ' Тараканище ' ), is a popular Russian children's fairy tale poem written by poet Korney Chukovsky in 1921. [ 3 ]
"The Prayer of Russians" [a] is a patriotic hymn that was used as the national anthem of Imperial Russia from 1816 to 1833. After defeating the First French Empire, Tsar Alexander I of Russia recommended a national anthem for Russia. The lyrics were written by Vasily Zhukovsky, and the music of the British anthem "God Save the King" was used.
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Zhukovsky also supported this marriage. Long in love with Maria Protasova, the poet hoped for Voeikov's help in receiving blessings from the girls' mother. Alexandra's older sister also persuaded her to marry Voeikov. The wedding took place on July 14, 1814, in the Podzavalovskaya church. To provide his niece with a dowry, Zhukovsky sold his ...
The War and the World (Война и мир) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1916 and first published in 1917 by Maxim Gorky-led Parus Publishers, originally under the title Война и мiр. [1] The name of the poem is a wordplay on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.