Pushkin, Vasilii Lvovich

Pushkin, Vasilii L’vovich 

Born Apr. 27 (May 8), 1770, in Moscow; died there Aug. 20 (Sept. 1), 1830. Russian poet. Uncle of A. S. Pushkin.

V. L. Pushkin began publishing in 1793. In 1822 his collection Poems appeared. Pushkin was a follower of N. M. Karamzin and I.I. Dmitriev, and a member of Arzamas (from 1816). He wrote elegies, romances, songs, and album verses in a sentimentalist vein, as well as fables and epigrams. His poem A Dangerous Neighbor (1811) realistically depicted the mores of the Moscow nobility. He was one of the first to notice the talent of A. S. Pushkin.

WORKS

Sochineniia. St. Petersburg, 1893.
[Stikhotvoreniia.] In Poety-satiriki kontsa XVlU-nach. XIX v. Leningrad, 1959.
[Stikhotvoreniia.] In Poety 1790–1810-kh gg. [Leningrad] 1971.

REFERENCES

Piksanov, N. K. “Diadia i plemiannik.” In A. S. Pushkin, Poln. sobr. soch., vol. 5. St. Petersburg, 1911.
Istoriia russkoi literatury XIX v.: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Moscow-Leningrad, 1962.

I. A. SHCHUROV