Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Batjuschkow

Portrait of Konstantin Batjuschkov by Orest Adamowitsch Kiprensky (1815)

Konstantin Batyushkov ( Russian Константин Николаевич Батюшков ; born May 18 ^{. Jul} / 29. May 1787 ^greg. In Vologda , † July 7 ^jul. / 19th July 1855 ^greg. ) Was a Russian poet .

Life

Batyushkov was raised in Saint Petersburg . He joined the Petersburg Rifle Division at the outbreak of the 1806 war . He was wounded in the battle of Heilsberg . After his recovery he fought among the guards hunters in Finland until 1809 and as a staff captain and adjutant of General Nikolai Rajewski also took part in the campaigns from 1812 to 1814 until the capture of Paris.

In 1818 he was appointed attaché to the Russian legation in Naples . There he soon fell into a mental illness , against which even a cure in the Bohemian baths did not help. In 1822 Batyushkov returned to Russia. When tracks real the following year madness showed he was brought by his relatives to Vologda, where he in complete yet 32 years absentmindedness spent.

Batyushkow, who had trained on Petrarch and Tasso , is one of the best Russian writers in terms of language development; he introduced the old classical forms into Russian, translated Tibullus , Petrarca, Tasso , Matthisson etc. and gave the Russian language an unimaginable euphony. His own poems (collected in Petersburg in 1850) consist of elegies , epistles , stories and songs ; one of the most beautiful elegies is that of Tasso's death, in which he sings prophetically of his own fate. Incidentally, the entire literary activity of the poet only covered a period of ten years (1810–20).

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SURNAME	Batyushkow, Konstantin Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Константин Николаевич Батюшков (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vologda
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1855
Place of death	Vologda