Vasily Pushkin

Vasily Pushkin

Vasiliy Lvovich Pushkin (April 27, 1766 - August 20, 1830), was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin.

Vasiliy Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russia. During his early years, he has served in Russia's Leib Guard Izmailovo Regiment, retiring at the rank of poruchik. Between 1803 and 1804 Pushkin lived abroad, mainly in Paris.

Pushkin was a neoclassical poet and was indifferent to the then-popular romantic movement. In his poem "Captain Khrabrov", Pushkin mocked romanticism. 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 Lafontaine 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 bowdyhouse. Buyanov, the main character of the poem, became a household name; Alexander Pushkin mentioned him in "Eugene Onegin". Pushkin the younger did not take his uncle's poetry seriously; at the age of 22 he apprehended that the posterity will ascribe "A Dangerous Neighbour" to his own juvenilia:

:"All his works are not worth his Buyanov; and what will happen to him in posterity? I'm extremely afraid that my cousin [i.e., Buyanov] will be taken for my son..." [Pushkin's letter to Peter Vyazemsky, January 2, 1822] .

Due to interest in his nephew, Vasily Pushkin's works were re-published numerous times; the last and most complete collection is "V. L. Pushkin. Poems", M. Hyperion, 2005. ISBN 5-89332-104-9.

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