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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] 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Zhukovsky has received more than 217,225 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Vasily Zhukovsky is the 1,139th most popular writer (down from 1,009th in 2019), the 415th most popular biography from Russia (down from 339th in 2019) and the 47th 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

Among writers, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 1,139 out of 5,755Before him are Joseph Bédier, Raymond Radiguet, Catherine de Bourbon, Ivan Cankar, Cosmas of Prague, and Fernando Arrabal. After him are Ugo Foscolo, Emmanuelle Arsan, Giambattista Marino, Ilia Chavchavadze, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 11Before him are Agustín de Iturbide, Hugh Glass, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria. After him are Friedrich Sertürner, Catharina of Württemberg, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and François Magendie. Among people deceased in 1852, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 13Before him are Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Karl Bryullov, and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden. After him are Ján Kollár, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Xavier de Maistre, Thomas Moore, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Hadji Murad.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 415 out of 3,262Before him are Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869), Andre Geim (1958), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553), Nikolai Leskov (1831), and Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691). After him are Nathalie Sarraute (1900), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Rinat Dasayev (1957), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882), and Yuri Lotman (1922).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 47Before him are Leonid Andreyev (1871), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Andrei Bely (1880), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), and Nikolai Leskov (1831). After him are Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Edith Södergran (1892), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817).