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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.
Zhukovsky (Russian: Жуковский, Russian pronunciation: [ʐʊˈkofskʲɪj]) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moskva River, 40 kilometers (25 mi) southeast of Moscow. Population: 104,736 ( 2010 Russian census); [2] 101,328 ( 2002 Census); [6] 100,609 ( 1989 Soviet census). [7] History.
Zhukovsky was the first scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift, through his circulation hypothesis, the first to establish that the lift force generated by a body moving through an ideal fluid is proportional to the velocity and the circulation around the body.
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.
Father of Russian aviation. The Scientific Memorial Museum of Professor N. E. Zhukovsky is open to everyone who wants to plunge into the world of discoveries and great achievements on the way to realizing a man’s daring dream of flying in airspace and overcoming gravity.
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (February 1783 – April 1852) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1800s. He is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement to Russian literature. Romanticism in Russia would produce the likes of Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov among others.
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (vəsē´lyē əndrā´əvĬch zhōōkôf´skē), 1783–1852, Russian poet and translator. Zhukovsky wrote fine lyrics and odes, including the patriotic poem "The Bard in the Camp of the Russian Warriors" (1812), but is important chiefly for his translations.
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)—the father of Russian romanticism, an outstanding poet and translator, the creator of the first aesthetic philosophy in Russian literature, which influenced several generations of Russian authors from Pushkin and Gogol to Vladimir Solov’ev and Alexander Blok—lived a long life.
The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)–poet, transla–tor of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkin–this book brings overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history.
Sep 22, 2023 · 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.
