Konstantin Batyushkov

Konstantin Batyushkov (1787-1855) was born in Vologda. His mother suffered from a mental illness. Brought up in foreign boarding schools in Saint Petersburg, he then lived with Mikhail Muravyov, a relative of his father, whose influence was decisive. Enlisted in 1807, he was gravely wounded at Heilsberg, then took part in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 and entered Paris with the Russian army. In the early 1820s, mental illness struck him in turn; treated in Saxony from 1824 to 1828, he spent his last years in Vologda, where he died.

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• PoetryОпыты в стихах и прозеKonstantin Batyushkov · 1817not translated into EnglishLiterature