Oriental elegy on Pushkin's death

Autograph of the elegy

The Oriental Elegy on Pushkin's Death ( Persian مرثیه شرق در وفات پوشکین; Azerbaijani Puşkinin Ölümünə Şərq poeması ) is an elegiac poem by the Azerbaijani writer Mirsa Fatali Achundow , which he wrote in 1837 on the occasion of the death of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin .

It was written in the Persian language in the tradition of classical oriental poetry. It is the second surviving poem by Achundov and his first published work. The elegy is considered his first major work and was first published in Russian in 1837 in the author's interlinear translation . Literal translations of the poem into Russian were made by Alexander Bestuschew and Paul Antokolsky. On February 8, 1937, the poem to mark the centenary of the death of Pushkin was read at a concert broadcast by Radio Moscow to Iran and Afghanistan .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Аз. Шариф. Ахундов // 8 / Под ред. А. А. Суркова. - Краткая литературная энциклопедия: Советская энциклопедия, 1962. - Т. I. - С. 364.
2. ↑ Н. Мамедов. Реализм М.Ф. Ахундова. - Баку: Маариф, 1982. - 286 с.
3. ↑ Н. Дж. Мамедов. М. Ф. Ахундов (К 175-летию со дня рождения). - Советская тюркология: Коммунист, 1989. - № 1. - С. 42-53.
4. ↑ H. Algar: Article Āḵūndzāda in: Encyclopædia Iranica , 1984. - Т. I. - С. 735-740.
5. ↑ А. 3. Розенфельд. А. С. Пушкин в персидских переводах . - Вестник Ленинградского университета, 1949. - № 6. - С. 83.

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