Biography of Zhukovskago

Born: February 9, Mishensky Tula province, died: April 24, biography - Vasily Zhukovsky was born on January 29, February 9 BC. Father, Afanasy Ivanovich Bunin, landowner, owner of p. Michensky; Mother, Turkish, Salha, who fell into Russia among prisoners taken by Russian troops during the siege of the Bender fortress. The boy was given the surname of the landowner Andrei Zhukovsky, who lived in the position of the survivor in the Bunin house.

This allowed the future poet to avoid the fate of the illegitimate, but to obtain the nobility, it required the enrollment of a young Zhukovsky to fictitious military service in the Astrakhan Hussar Regiment. In the city, he received his original education with the Bunin family, where he grew as a pupil. He studied in a private boarding house, after the closure of which was determined at the Main Public School.

From here he was excluded "for the inability" and further continued his studies at the house of V. Yushkova, the consolidated sister of the poet. Here for the first time joined literary work. In - GG studied at a noble boarding house at Moscow University, where he began to write poetry. Participation in the "friendly literary society", which included representatives of educated noble youth, determined the creative interests of Zhukovsky.

To G. At the beginning of the war, G. from G. to - 20 is the heyday of Zhukovsky’s work. At this time, the Ballads of the Eolov Arf and Vadim, the translation of the ballad V. Scott "Castle Smalgolm, or Ivanov Evening", romantic poems "Color of the Covenant", "Sea", thanks to the influence at court, he repeatedly achieved the fate of the exiled Pushkin, the ransom from the serfs of T.

Shevchenko, the exemption from the exile of Herzen, and relieve the fate of the Decembrists.

At the beginning of X, more and more places in his work are occupied by translations: F. Schiller’s poems “Cup”, Byron’s poems “Schilonian Prisoner”. Ballads were written on ancient topics: "Triumph of the winners", "City Submissions". In the year, relations with the tsarist court worsened so much that, having received an honorary resignation, Zhukovsky decided to move to Germany, where this spring he married young Elizabeth, the daughter of his old friend of the artist Reitern.

He makes several attempts to return to Russia, but his wife’s health and impending blindness do not allow this intentions. Zhukovsky’s creative activity did not weaken in the last period of his life: he finished the translation of the Indian folk novel “Nal and Damayanti”, which had begun in Russia, translated the poem “Rustem and Zorab” and “Odyssey” Homer.

Death interrupted his work on the translation of the Iliad. Zhukovsky died in Baden-Baden April 12 24 n. His ashes were transported to Russia and buried in St. Petersburg at the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Detailed biography.