Poet, Translator. He gained recognition as the poet of the lyrics used for the Russian National Anthem from 1833 to 1917, or the Tsar's anthem "God save the Tsar." Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy, Schukowski (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский) was a Russian poet who was born in the village of Mishenskoe, in Tula Governorate, Russian Empire. He served as an educator at the Tsar's court, and he was an art collector, especially Caspar David Friedrich. He translated into Russian a wide range of literature and introduced the Romantic Movement, such as Goethe and Schiller, among others, into Russian. He came to Baden-Baden in 1848 and stayed here till the end of his life in 1852. A memorial plaque remembers him at the house where he lived at Sophienstraße 5 and translated Homer's "Odyssey." Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy was buried in Baden-Baden but, in 1852, was transferred to the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg. The Baden-Baden grave memorial is preserved by the German-Russian Cultural Society of Baden-Baden. A bust remembering him can be found beside the Baden-Baden Art Gallery ("Kunsthalle").
He was buried here.
Poet, Translator. He gained recognition as the poet of the lyrics used for the Russian National Anthem from 1833 to 1917, or the Tsar's anthem "God save the Tsar." Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy, Schukowski (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский) was a Russian poet who was born in the village of Mishenskoe, in Tula Governorate, Russian Empire. He served as an educator at the Tsar's court, and he was an art collector, especially Caspar David Friedrich. He translated into Russian a wide range of literature and introduced the Romantic Movement, such as Goethe and Schiller, among others, into Russian. He came to Baden-Baden in 1848 and stayed here till the end of his life in 1852. A memorial plaque remembers him at the house where he lived at Sophienstraße 5 and translated Homer's "Odyssey." Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy was buried in Baden-Baden but, in 1852, was transferred to the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg. The Baden-Baden grave memorial is preserved by the German-Russian Cultural Society of Baden-Baden. A bust remembering him can be found beside the Baden-Baden Art Gallery ("Kunsthalle").
He was buried here.
Bio by: Claus Buschmann
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