Vasily Pushkin

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Sketch of Vasily Pushkin

Vasily Lvovich Pushkin (Russian: Васи́лий Льво́вич Пу́шкин; 27 April 1766 – 20 August 1830) was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin.

Vasily Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russian Empire. During his early years, he served in Russia's Leib Guard Izmailovo Regiment, retiring with the rank of poruchik. Between 1803 and 1804 Pushkin lived abroad, mainly in Paris.

Pushkin was a neoclassical poet and was indifferent to the then-popular romantic movement. In his poem "Captain Khrabrov", Pushkin mocked romanticism. He was a follower of light poetry, and wrote numerous songs, epistles, and epigrams in the manner of Horace, Tibullus, or Catullus. He also translated several poems of La Fontaine and other French poets.

Vasily Pushkin's house in Staraya Basmannaya Street, Moscow

Vasily Lvovich had a sudden burst of creativity in 1810 and 1811, when he wrote his best polemical verse, including a humorous masterpiece, A Dangerous Neighbour (1811), set in a bawdyhouse. Buyanov, the main character of the poem, became a household name; Alexander Pushkin mentioned him in Eugene Onegin. Pushkin the younger did not take his uncle's poetry seriously; at the age of 22 he apprehended that the posterity will ascribe A Dangerous Neighbour to his own juvenilia:

All his works are not worth his Buyanov; and what will happen to him in posterity? I'm extremely afraid that my cousin [i.e., Buyanov] will be taken for my son... [Pushkin's letter to Peter Vyazemsky, 2 January 1822].

Due to interest in his nephew, Vasily Pushkin's works were re-published numerous times; the last and most complete collection is "V. L. Pushkin. Poems", M. Hyperion, 2005. ISBN 5-89332-104-9.

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Narrative poems|

* Ruslan and Ludmila (1820)
* The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1820–1822)
* The Gabrieliad (1821)
* The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1823)
* The Gypsies (1827)
* Poltava (1829)
* Tazit (1829–1830, unfinished)
* The Bronze Horseman (1833)

Short poems|

* "Ode to Liberty" (1817)
* "I Loved You" (1830)
* "To the Slanderers of Russia" (1831)

Verse fairy tales|

* The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1830)
* The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1831)
* The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (1833)
* The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1833)
* The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (1834)

Verse novel|

* Eugene Onegin (1833)

Prose|

* The Moor of Peter the Great (1827–1828)
* The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1830)
* "The Shot"
* "The Blizzard"
* Dubrovsky (1833)
* The Queen of Spades (1834)
* A Journey to Arzrum (1835–1836)
* The Captain's Daughter (1836)

Plays|

* Boris Godunov (1825)
* The Little Tragedies (1830)
* A Feast in Time of Plague
* Mozart and Salieri
* The Stone Guest

People|

* Natalia Pushkina (wife)
* Anton Delvig
* Abram Petrovich Gannibal (great-grandfather)
* Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
* Anna Petrovna Kern
* Pyotr Pletnyov
* Vasily Pushkin (uncle)
* Pyotr Vyazemsky

Related|

* Amadeus
* film
* The Aristocratic Peasant Girl
* Dostoyevsky Speech
* Literaturnaya Gazeta
* Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve
* Pushkin House
* Pushkin Is Our Everything
* Pushkin Museum
* Pushkin Prize
* Pushkin studies
* Pushkinskaya Square
* Sovremennik
* Demolition of monuments in Ukraine

Authority control databases

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* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Czech Republic
* Netherlands
* Latvia
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People|

* Deutsche Biographie
* DDB

Other|

* IdRef

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