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Vasily Zhukovsky

1783 - 1852

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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. 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Zhukovsky is the 994th most popular writer (up from 1,014th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Russia (up from 359th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Writer.

Vasily Zhukovsky is most famous for being a Russian poet and an influential literary critic. He is also well known for his translations of Shakespeare's plays into Russian.

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Among writers, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 994 out of 7,302. Before him are Taha Hussein, Jacques Hébert, Hartmann von Aue, Sherwood Anderson, Joachim du Bellay, and Ghassan Kanafani. After him are Branislav Nušić, Thomas Wolfe, Wilbur Smith, John Grisham, Joost van den Vondel, and Aziz Nesin.

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Among people born in 1783, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 7. Before him are Stendhal, Simón Bolívar, Hortense de Beauharnais, Washington Irving, Agustín de Iturbide, and N. F. S. Grundtvig. After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, Friedrich Sertürner, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Hugh Glass. Among people deceased in 1852, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 13. Before him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Augustus Pugin, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Ján Kollár. After him are Karl Bryullov, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Louisa Adams, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, and Gideon Mantell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 326 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Perov (1834), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), George Balanchine (1904), and Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874). After him are Pavlik Morozov (1918), Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), Yury of Moscow (1281), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), and Nikolai Kondratiev (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 34. Before him are Alexander Blok (1880), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Arthur Adamov (1908), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), and Viktor Shklovsky (1893). After him are Henri Troyat (1911), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Edith Södergran (1892), and Alexander Litvinenko (1962).

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