About Zhukovsky biography

Zhukovsky biography of V. Zhukovsky Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky was born on January 29, Belev, the Tula province. He was the son of a wealthy landowner AF. Bunin and the captive Turkish woman Salhi, who, having accepted Orthodoxy, received the name of Elizabeth Dementievna. The boy was adopted by the poor Kiev nobleman A. Zhukovsky, thereby giving him a middle name and surname.

Zhukovsky began to write poetry early, in years, and at the age of 12 he already composed the tragedy of Camill or Liberated Rome. And the very atmosphere of the house where it grew up, contributed to the awakening of a poetic gift, love of music and interest in painting. Zhukovsky studied at a private boarding house in Tula, then at the parish school, from where he was excluded "for inability." He received this education at the Moscow University noble boarding house, where he stayed for 4 years - teaching literature was reduced there not only to study the classics, and the independent work of students was encouraged.

Thus began the literary path of Zhukovsky. Already in periodicals published in the boarding house, he publishes his first early works - mainly a philosophical ode and reasoning in prose on various topics. After the end of the guesthouse, without lasting two years in the salt office, he returns to the Tula province. For more than 50 years, the literary activity of Zhukovsky - poet and translator lasted.

Zhukovsky was lucky - his “complete collected works” was published five times during his lifetime. In - gg. Zhukovsky, editor of the magazine "Bulletin of Europe", takes part in the war of G. in this position, he consisted before G. Zhukovsky fought for his right of the educator to influence the "soul" of Tsarevich, and enjoyed his trust. After his resignation, he wrote to Alexander Nikolaevich: “The borders that separate others from you cannot and should not be my borders ...

This will not be concessed by the ineffective rights of your dignity, it will be a high dignity of a person, and a person in every dignity is the main thing.” In the city of Zhukovsky marries Elizabeth Reuters, the daughter of a German artist.

Family life gave him the joy of children - Alexander and Paul, but for many years they were overshadowed by the poet with a severe illness of his wife. Zhukovsky dies in Baden-Baden, his ashes were transported to St. Petersburg and buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, next to Karamzin and Krylov. Eternal petition and petitioner, a man of crystal soul, amazing kindness and amazing compassion, Zhukovsky - a universal defender.

He helps to redeem Taras Shevchenko from the serfs; Drushes for Herzen, Lermontov; A faithful friend of Pushkin, he helps him in every possible way, and after the death of the poet he achieves a pension to his family. Nicholas I repeated to Zhukovsky more than once that he was "a defender of all those who are only thin with the government." Such was Zhukovsky’s life: “Every day a good deed, thought or feeling” was a humanistic life principle that he adhered to his whole life and which he remained faithful until his death.