Vasily lvovich pushkin biography

poet

Vasily Lvovich Pushkin was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin.

Background

Vasily Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russia.

Career

During his early years, he served in Russia"s Leib Guard Izmailovo Regiment, retiring with the rank of poruchik.

Vasily lvovich pushkin biography

Between 1803 and 1804 Pushkin lived abroad, mainly in Paris. Pushkin was a neoclassical poet and was indifferent to the then-popular romantic movement.

He was a follower of light poetry, and wrote numerous songs, epistles, and epigrams in the manner of Horace, Tibullus, or Catullus.

He also translated several poems of Louisiana Fontaine and other French poets.

Vasily Lvovich had a sudden burst of creativity in 1810 and 1811, when he wrote his best polemical verse, including a humorous masterpiece, A Dangerous Neighbour (1811), set in a bawdyhouse.

Buyanov, the main character of the poem, became a hous