Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский, Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy) 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.
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1783 village of Mishenskoe
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1852 (aged 68)
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