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Vasily Zhukovsky

Born on January 29, 1783

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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский; 9 February 1783 – 24 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.

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