Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin

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by Mirza Fatali Akhundov

Autograph of poem

Translator| Mirza Fatali Akhundov
First published in| Moskovsky Telegraph (in Russian translation)
Country| Russian Empire
Language| Persian
Genre(s)| Qasida
Publication date| 1837 (1837)

"Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin" is a Persian qasida (elegy) by the Azerbaijani author Mirza Fatali Akhundov, composed in 1837. This poem was his first published work.[1] In 1837, Akhundov prepared a Russian prose translation of his poem, and his friend Alexander Bestuzhev a versified one. It was published for the first time, in Akhundov's translation, in the journal Moskovsky Telegraf.[2] The poem was also published in the journal Moskovsky Nablyudatel, with an editorial note welcoming the poem as a tribute not merely to Pushkin but to Russian culture as a whole.[1] Bestuzhev's translation was published in 1874 in the journal Russkaya Starina. The original version of the poem was found and published only in 1936 (translator Pavel Antokolsky).

## Sources

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1. ^ a b Algar, Hamid (2020). "Āḵūndzāda". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online. Brill. doi:10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_5031.
2. ^ Rozenfeld, A. Z. (1949). "A. S. Pushkin v persidskikh perevodakh" А. С. Пушкин в персидских переводах [A. S. Pushkin in Persian translations]. Vestnik Leningradskogo universiteta (6): 83.

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Azerbaijani Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Puşkinin ölümünə Şərq poeması

Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Восточная поэма на смерть Пушкина (Ахундов)

* Original Persian text and Mikayil Mushfig's Azerbaijani translation in Akhundov, Mirza Fatali (1958), Ăsărlări: u̇ch jilddă Әсәрләри: үч ҹилддә, vol. 1, Baku: Azărbaĭjan SSR Elmlăr Akademii̐asy Năshrii̐i̐aty, pp. 333–339, OCLC 35607023 - via National Library of Azerbaijan.

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