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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 poem tells of a lazy priest who is wandering around a market looking for a cheap worker. There he meets Balda (Балда in Russian means a stupid or just simple, or not very serious person) who agrees to work for a year without pay except that he be allowed to hit the priest three times on his forehead and have cooked spelt for food.
Excerpts of the poem were first published by Vasily Zhukovsky in the journal Sovremennik in 1837, after Pushkin's death. Pushkin had left the poem untitled, so Zhukovsky published it under the title Galub, apparently a misreading of the name of the character Gasub. Later publications have not used this title, preferring to call the poem by the ...
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 ...
The poem (signed "-v") was published in No.3 issue of Sovremennik, with both editorial (by Zhukovsky) and censorial cuts. The title was curtailed to just Kaznatcheysha (A Treasurer's Wife). The manuscript of the poem has been lost. None of the omitted lines has been restored since. [1] The way the poem was treated outraged Lermontov.
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.