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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.
Zhukovsky began work on Svetlana in 1808 and completed it in 1812. The ballad was first published in the journal Vestnik Evropy in 1813. It was dedicated to Zhukovsky's niece and student Alexandra Andreevna Voeikova (who was the sister of the poet's muse Maria Protasova-Moyer), as a wedding gift to her.
Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was the primary instigator and theorist of the so-called "Objectivist" poets, a short lived collective of poets who after several decades of obscurity would reemerge around 1960 and become a significant influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.
Zhukovsky invited the Voeikovs to live together; life together was, in his words, "a sacrifice to cute Sandrochk." The Voeikov-Zhukovsky's apartment on Nevsky Prospect soon became the center of literary and artistic life of St. Petersburg in the 1820s. Highly educated and lively, Alexandra was not only a connoisseur of poetry, but she herself ...
By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding "Golden Age" in poetry, prose and drama. The Romantic movement contributed to a flowering of literary talent: poet Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore.
Salammbô (Russian: Саламбо, Salambo) [alternative title: The Libyan (Russian: Ливиец, Liviyets)] is an unfinished opera in four acts by Modest Mussorgsky.The fragmentary Russian language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the novel Salammbô (1862) by Gustave Flaubert, but includes verses taken from poems by Vasiliy Zhukovsky, Apollon Maykov, Aleksandr ...
In the memoirs of E.P. Letkova-Sultanova, the story, about which "all Petersburg" spoke at one time, was recorded from the words of Pavel Zhukovsky and contains an interesting detail: upon learning that his sister was pregnant, he came to the Grand Duke, demanded a duel, and when Alexander II forbade his son to accept the challenge, Zhukovsky ...
Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky wrote two free adaptations of Bürger's ballad: Lyudmila (1808), which is considered the first Russian ballad, and Svetlana (1813). In both of these, Zhukovsky gave the story a Russian setting. [25] Zhukovsky also wrote a more accurate translation in 1831, maintaining the original title and setting. [26]