Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Zhukovsky
Portrait by Karl Bryullov, 1837–38
Born	Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky 9 February 1783 Mishenskoe, Belyovsky Uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	24 April 1852(1852-04-24) (aged 69) Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation
Spouse	Elizabeth von Reutern
Issue	Alexandra Zhukovskaya
Occupation	Poet

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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский; 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.

Zhukovsky is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement into Russia. The main body of his literary output consists of free translations covering an impressively wide range of poets, from ancients like Ferdowsi and Homer to his contemporaries Goethe, Schiller, Byron, and others. Many of his translations have become classics of Russian literature, regarded by some to be better written and more enduring in Russian than in their original languages.^[1]