Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (born 1783)

Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet (1783–1852)

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky 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…