Vasily Zhukovsky

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Vasily Zhukovsky was a prominent Russian Romantic poet and translator, best known for his ballads and for shaping early 19th-century Russian literature while serving as a tutor to the future Tsar Alexander II.

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Vasily Zhukovsky canonical 2
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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic poet
human
poet
translator
contributedTo formation of Russian literary language
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
educated future Tsar Alexander II
employer Russian Imperial Court
ethnicGroup Russian
familyName Zhukovsky
linked to: Vasily Zhukovsky
fieldOfWork literature
translation
genre ballad
poetry
givenName Vasily
hasInfluenceOn Russian Romantic tradition
influenced Alexander Pushkin
Mikhail Lermontov
early 19th-century Russian literature
inspiredBy European Romanticism
linked to: Romanticism

German literature
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
literaryPeriod early 19th century
movement Romanticism
name Vasily Zhukovsky
nativeName Василий Андреевич Жуковский
notableFor ballads
introducing Romanticism into Russian poetry
shaping early 19th-century Russian literature
notableWork Lyudmila
linked to: Ludmila

Svetlana
The Bard
The Sea
occupation poet
translator
partOf Golden Age of Russian poetry
placeOfActivity Moscow
Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
positionHeld court poet
tutor to the future Tsar Alexander II
student Alexander II of Russia
style romantic ballad
sentimentalism
translatedWork Homer's Odyssey
The Iliad (partial)
linked to: Homer's Iliad

The Odyssey
linked to: Homer's Odyssey

works of Friedrich Schiller
works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
works of Lord Byron

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Alexander Nevsky Lavra burialPlaceOf Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Zhukovsky name Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Zhukovsky familyName Zhukovsky
linked to: Vasily Zhukovsky