ISBN: 9780299224202

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743â??1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russiaâ??imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and strugg… More...

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743â??1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russiaâ??imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleonâ??and he served three tsars, including Catherine the Great. Here in its first English translation is the masterful biography of Derzhavin by another acclaimed Russian man of letters, Vladislav Khodasevich. Derzhavin occupied a position at the center of Russian life, uniting civic service with poetic inspiration and creating an oeuvre that at its essence celebrated the triumphs of Russia and its rulers, particularly Catherine the Great. His biographer Khodasevich, by contrast, left Russia in 1922, unable to abide the increasingly repressive regime of the Soviets. For Khodasevich, whose lyric poems were as commonplace in their focus as Derzhavinâ??s odes were grand, this biography was in a sense a rediscovery of a lost and idyllic era, a period when it was possible to aspire to the pinnacles of artistic achievement while still occupying a central role in Russian society. Khodasevich writes with humor, intelligence, and understanding, and his work stands as a monument to the last three centuries of Russian history, lending keen insight into Russiaâ??s past as well as its present and future.â??Khodasevichâ??s light narrative touch (as translated by Brintlinger) lends a novelistic quality to the biography, making it a genuine tour de force. All students and scholars â?? of history, literature, poetry, biography â?? will find something of interest here."â??Choice | Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Biography & Memoirs > History & Politics P10101, Vladislav Khodasevich<

2007, ISBN: 0299224201

[EAN: 9780299224202], Neubuch, [PU: The University of Wisconsin Press], BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY & HISTORICAL LITERARY HISTORY EUROPE RUSSIA THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, Russian poet, soldier,… More...

[EAN: 9780299224202], Neubuch, [PU: The University of Wisconsin Press], BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY & HISTORICAL LITERARY HISTORY EUROPE RUSSIA THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia - imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleon - and he served three tsars, including Catherine the Gr., Books<

2007, ISBN: 0299224201

[EAN: 9780299224202], Neubuch, [PU: University of Wisconsin Press], Books

2016, ISBN: 9780299224202

A Biography, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies], Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies, 2016