Zhukovsky fairy tales biography

Quotes about the author Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky - Russian writer, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Poet, Translator, one of the founders of romanticism in Russian literature. Acquaintance with playwright and the test of Perra Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky was born on February 9 in the village of Michensky Tula province. His father was the landowner Afanasy Ivanovich Bunin, and his mother was a Turkish girl captured during the assault on the Bender fortress.

The patronymic and surname was given to the future writer by the father of his father - Andrei Grigorievich Zhukovsky. The wife of the landowner fell in love with an illegitimate child and raised as her own son. Vasily Andreevich received primary education at home, then studied at the boarding house, and after its closure went to the Tula People’s School. After the exclusion of “for inability” was sheltered by the family of the impatient sister Varvara Afanasyevna Yushkova, where Zhukovsky first thought about creativity and decided to become a playwright.

At the age of eleven, he wrote a tragedy, which was based on the plot of the ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch “Camill, or liberated Rome,” later a melodrama appeared, based on the work of Paul and Virginia. Later, Varvara Afanasyevna sought to appropriate the brother of the noble title. At the age of fourteen, Zhukovsky entered the Moscow University boarding house.

In the summer of the year, he successfully graduated from an educational institution with a silver medal and was enrolled in the state of the main salt office, where he received a state rank of city secretary. He devoted his free time to self -education, studied history, languages, literature, and was engaged in translations. Education and teaching, having entered the boarding house, Vasily Andreevich was seriously interested in creativity.

In the year, his translation of Elegy Gray “The rural cemetery” was printed in the monthly “Bulletin of Europe” and attracted the attention of readers. Six years later, the author published the ballad “Lyudmila”, which became one of the first works of Russian literature written in the style of romanticism. Soon, Zhukovsky was offered the post of editor in the "Bulletin of Europe". When the French troops attacked Russia, the writer enrolled in the militia, but did not stop literary activity.

His ballad "Svetlana" enjoyed great success. In the year, Zhukovsky was forced to resign as he fell ill with a typhoid. Since the year, the poet was at the court, where he first taught Russian to Princess Alexandra Fedorovna, and then was engaged in the education of the future emperor Alexander II. Together with Tsesarevich, he traveled a lot around Russia and Europe. Zhukovsky was a close friend and mentor of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.

Passion for creativity until the last years of his life Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky wrote and translated dozens of works. Litres offers to get acquainted with the most famous works: “Ballads.