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Derzhavin - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Derzhavin - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816)
lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia - imperial
expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with
Napoleon - and he served three tsars, including Catherine the
Great. Here in its first English translation is the masterful
biography of Derzhavin by another acclaimed Russian man of letters,
Vladislav Khodasevich. Derzhavin occupied a position at the center
of Russian life, uniting civic service with poetic inspiration and
creating an oeuvre that at its essence celebrated the triumphs of
Russia and its rulers, particularly Catherine the Great. His
biographer Khodasevich, by contrast, left Russia in 1922, unable to
abide the increasingly repressive regime of the Soviets. For
Khodasevich, whose lyric poems were as commonplace in their focus
as Derzhavin's odes were grand, this biography was in a sense a
rediscovery of a lost and idyllic era, a period when it was
possible to aspire to the pinnacles of artistic achievement while
still occupying a central role in Russian society. Khodasevich
writes with humor, intelligence, and understanding, and his work
stands as a monument to the last three centuries of Russian
history, lending keen insight into Russia's past as well as its
present and future.
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