Evgeny Boratynsky
March 02, 1800 – July 11, 1844
Countries:
Italy, Russian Empire
Place of Birth:
Vyazhlya, Kirsanovsky district, Tambov province, Russian Empire
Place of Death:
Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Categories:
Poetry
Evgeny Abramovich Boratynsky was born on March 2, 1800, in the village of Vyazhlya, Tambov province, Russian Empire. Russian poet, translator. One of the brightest and at the same time mysterious and underestimated figures of Russian literature. The first poem by Baratynsky was published in 1819.
Spending a lot of time in Moscow, he met a circle of Moscow writers - with Ivan Kireevsky, Nikolai Yazykov, Alexei Khomyakov. Baratynsky became famous for his poems Ed and Feasts (1826) and the first collection of lyric poems published in one book (1827). In 1828 the poem "Ball" was published, published in one collection together with "Count Nulin" by Pushkin, in 1831 - "The Concubine" ("Gypsy"), in 1835 - the second edition of the poems in two parts.
Spending a lot of time in Moscow, he met a circle of Moscow writers - with Ivan Kireevsky, Nikolai Yazykov, Alexei Khomyakov. Baratynsky became famous for his poems Ed and Feasts (1826) and the first collection of lyric poems published in one book (1827). In 1828 the poem "Ball" was published, published in one collection together with "Count Nulin" by Pushkin, in 1831 - "The Concubine" ("Gypsy"), in 1835 - the second edition of the poems in two parts.