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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский; 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1783 – 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.
'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.
The lyrics were written by Vasily Zhukovsky, and the music of the British anthem "God Save the King" was used. In 1833, "The Prayer of Russians" was replaced with "God Save the Tsar". The two songs both have identical incipits: «Боже, царя храни». [1]
It was composed by violinist Alexei Lvov, with lyrics written by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky. It was the anthem until the February Revolution of 1917, after which " Worker's Marseillaise " was adopted as the new national anthem until the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution of the same ...
Russian Romantic writer Vasily Zhukovsky adapted the tale into verse form in his poem "Сказка о Иване-царевиче и Сером Волке" ("The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf"). [27]
She was the daughter of Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky and his Baltic-German wife, Elizabeth von Reutern (1821-1856). Her father was the illegitimate son of a landowner named Afanasi Bunin and his Turkish housekeeper Salkha. [1] [2] She was made lady-in-waiting at the Russian Imperial court.
The original version of the song, written by Vasily Zhukovsky and Egor Fyodorovich Rozen, [1] [2] praised the Tsar and the Russian Tsardom, while the latter version by Sergey Gorodetsky was one of a patriotic form and is even sometimes regarded as a patriotic anthem of the Russia in the 20th century and today. It is one of the more popular ...
Guessing Svetlana is a painting by the Russian artist Karl Bryullov, painted in 1836, based on the ballad of Vasily Zhukovsky "Svetlana". This is the only painting by the artist created on the theme of Russian national life. The painting was painted in oil on canvas measuring 94 × 81 cm.