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  1. Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский; 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1787 – 24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1852) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century.

  2. Apr 20, 2024 · Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (born Jan. 29 [Feb. 9, New Style], 1783, Tula province, Russia—died April 12 [April 24], 1852, Baden-Baden, Baden [Germany]) was a Russian poet and translator, one of Aleksandr Pushkin’s most important precursors in forming Russian verse style and language.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Russian: Никола́й Его́рович Жуко́вский, IPA: [ʐʊˈkofskʲɪj]; 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1847 – 17 March 1921) was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero-and hydrodynamics.

  4. Zhukovsky is the center of track and field athletics in Moscow Oblast. Most notable athletes born in Zhukovsky are Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Andrey Yepishin, Dmitry Bogdanov, and others. In 2005, the Meteor international standard athletics stadium was opened.

  5. Ilya Vinitsky's Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia is the first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852)-a poet, transla­tor of German romantic verse, and, crucially, mentor of Pushkin.

  6. Zhukovsky in 1820 1783 Born in the provincial Tula village of Mishenskoe, the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, A.I. Bunin and a captive Turkish woman; receives education in his home and in provincial boarding schools; begins to write poetry at age eight

  7. Russian poet, translator and literary critic (b. 29 January/9 February 1783 near Belyov; d. 24 April 1852 in Baden-Baden [N.S.]), born Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Василий Андреевич Жуковский).