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Vasily Zhukovsky

Died in 1852

Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852) was born at Mishenskoye, in the Tula governorate, the illegitimate son of the landowner Afanasy Bunin and of Salha, a Turkish captive taken at Bender. A friend of the family, Andrei Zhukovsky, adopted him and gave him his name. He rendered Gray, Schiller and Byron into Russian. Tutor to the future Alexander II, he took part in the purchase of the freedom of the young Shevchenko, then a serf: in April 1838, his portrait painted by Bryullov was put up in a lottery before the imperial family, and the two thousand five hundred roubles raised paid for the painter's freedom. He died in Baden-Baden.

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