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  JewishEncyclopedia.com - DERZHAVIN, GAVRIIL ROMANOVICH:
Derzhavin's scruples combined with the dissensions among the Jews prejudiced the poet against them; and notwithstanding the evident abuse by Zorich of his prerogative, and in spite of the undoubted truth of many accusations against Zorich, Derzhavin reported in his favor, and he was acquitted.
He was commissioned at the same time to study the economic condition of the Jews in that region, and to present a report on the subject, with suggestions as to the measures to be taken in order to eliminate the supposed harmful influence exerted by their "unscrupulous dealings" on the lower classes of the population.
Derzhavin's plan called for the creation of a protectorate over the Jews; the protector to advise the czar personally as to the best measures to be taken for the moral uplifting of the Jew, so that he might in time be considered worthy to become a subject.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=268&letter=D   (708 words)

  
 History
The Tauride and Marble palaces were completed, along with Gostiny Dvor and the Bronze Horseman, while Charles Cameron worked on Catherine’s favorite country residence, Tsarskoe Selo.
Gavriil Derzhavin’s “Felitsa” was published and Fonvizin’s “The Minor” was premiered at the theater.
The throne was eventually inherited by Paul I (1796-1801), son of Catherine II and Peter III.
www.st-petersburg.ru /en/about/history   (4084 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Derzhavin,
The twilight of Russian literature: Vladislav Khodasevich and Gavriil Derzhavin.
As the poet Derzhavin wrote in tribute, "Roar on, roar on, O waterfall".
He quotes at length, for example, Gavriil Derzhavin, who at the turn of the 19th century blamed Jews for driving...
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 The twilight of Russian literature: Vladislav Khodasevich and Gavriil Derzhavin. - The Antioch Review - HighBeam ...
The twilight of Russian literature: Vladislav Khodasevich and Gavriil Derzhavin.
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The short twentieth century for the Russians (1917-1991) ended much the way it began, at least culturally.
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 Kharkiv - Ukrainian cities
Eskhar came into being in 1926 as Electric Station of Kharkiv.
Gavrylivka settlement came into being in 1650 and wad named after the noted Russian poet Gavriil Derzhavin.
Izium is situated in the site where Isiumets River flows in the Siverskyi Donets.
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  Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture, 1917-1937: SR, September 2001
Gavriil Derzhavin, on the other hand, incarnated a "healthy" balance between life and art for his twentieth-century chronicler.
Seeking to refute Derzhavin's reputation as a court poet, he built the text around the categories of God, the monarch, and the law, themes equally important for both the biographer and his subject.
Khodasevich considered Russian culture to be nearing the end of a cycle that began with Derzhavin, and he strove to create a viable model from the past to inspire his contemporaries to further development.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/901/213rubi.htm   (934 words)

  
 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin at AllExperts
Derzhavin is best remembered for his odes, dedicated to the Empress and other courtiers.
Derzhavin's major odes were the impeccable "On the Death of Prince Meschersky" (1779); the playful "Ode to Felicia" (1784); the lofty "God" (1785), which was translated into all languages of Europe; "Waterfall" (1794), occasioned by the death of Prince Potemkin, and "Bullfinch" (1800), a poignant elegy on the death of his friend Suvorov.
Nevertheless, Nikolai Nekrasov professed to follow Derzhavin rather than Pushkin, and Derzhavin's line of broken rhythms was continued by Marina Tsvetaeva in the 20th century.
en.allexperts.com /e/g/ga/gavrila_romanovich_derzhavin.htm   (630 words)

  
 Indexes
Derzhavin’s Ruins and the Birth of Historical Elegy
Through the prism of Gavriil Derzhavin’s 1797 poem “Razvaliny” (Ruins), Luba Golburt explores two concurrent developments in Russian cultural history: the fragmentation of Catherine the Great’s overwhelming legacy after her death in 1796 and the contemporaneous weakening of the classicist genre system, which gave rise to such hybrid genres as the historical elegy.
Derzhavin’s poem appropriately enacts historical recollection in a place overpopulated by ruins and pregnant with memories of recent history, Tsarskoe Selo.
www.slavicreview.uiuc.edu /indexes/vol65/abstracts4.html   (868 words)

  
 More info about the poet: Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin - references bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 President of Russia |
The Derzhavin House complex where the meeting took place was opened in 2003 to coincide with the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg.
Starting in 1790 and right up until his death, poet Gavriil Derzhavin’s estate was one of the city’s main cultural centres and a focal point for spiritual life in the capital at that time.
Today’s Derzhavin House complex is devoted to Derzhavin’s life and work and to Russian eighteenth-century literature.
www.kremlin.ru /eng/text/news/2006/11/114713.shtml   (280 words)

  
 The Voice of Russia: St.Petersburg is 300 years old
Gavriil Derzhavin, the patriarch of Russian poetry, who was listening to the students with a clearly boring look and would occasionally doze off in the warm depth of his armchair, roused himself instantly when Pushkin began reciting his poem “The Reminiscences of Tsarskoye Selo”.
Old Derzhavin was fuming with delight: he sent for me, he wanted to embrace me. They were looking for me but couldn’t find.” Word about the young prodigy spread fast around St. Petersburg.
There is a bronze statue of young Pushkin sitting in a dreamlike posture on an iron bench in the yard of the former lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo later renamed Pushkin.
www.vor.ru /English/centuries/centuries_16.html   (573 words)

  
 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin Biography and Summary
Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin was probably the greatest Russian poet of the eighteenth century.
His poetic achievement was seen by contemporaries as the crowning jewel of an entire epoch, one that stretched from the reforms of Peter I to the Napoleonic er...
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (Гаври́ла Рома́нович Держа́вин, July 14, 1743 – July 20, 1816) was the greatest Russian poet before Alexander Pushkin.
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 Derzhavin, Gavrila, "On Count Zubov's Return from Persia"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prince S. Golitsyn reproached Derzhavin for another ode he had composed to Zubov on the occasion of the taking of Derbent, saying that its hero is no longer an Alexander, and flattering him will bring him, Derzhavin, no good.
Derzhavin responded that his judgement of virtue remains firm and that he flatters nobody, and writes the truth as his heart feels it.
Derzhavin took up the challenge and after he went home, he composed this ode at a time when Zubov was entirely in disfavor.
www.macalester.edu /~hammarberg/russ263/derzhav.html   (541 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Built in 1910 to a design by architect Vasily Shaub, Number 121 stands two doors down from the second Yusupov Palace, on one of the greenest stretches of the River Fontanka.
Opposite is the House of Derzhavin, the former country estate of 18th-century poet Gavriil Derzhavin.
There is an open tennis court immediately opposite the house in the grounds of the House of Derzhavin.
www.bubyrs.ru /housec.htm   (130 words)

  
 The 250th Anniversary of the Birth of G.P. Derzhavin | Commemorative and Investment Coins database |Bank of Russia
The 250th Anniversary of the Birth of G.P. Derzhavin
a portrait of G.P. Derzhavin in a Senator's uniform, under it - a lyre, a trumpet and a book, the symbols of poetry and education, against the background of laurel branches.
Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816) - a Russian poet, Governor, Senator and Minister of Justice under Catherine the Great.
www.cbr.ru /eng/bank-notes_coins/base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5009-0007   (198 words)

  
 Russia - Literature
Their work was a further step in bringing Western literary concepts to Russia.
Under Catherine, the satirical journal was adopted from Britain, and Gavriil Derzhavin advanced the evolution of Russian poetry.
Denis Fonvizin, Yakov Knyazhnin, Aleksandr Radishchev, and Nikolay Karamzin wrote controversial and innovative drama and prose works that brought Russian literature closer to its nineteenth-century role as an art form liberally furnished with social and political commentary (see Imperial Expansion and Maturation: Catherine II, ch.
countrystudies.us /russia/43.htm   (1927 words)

  
 Tatarstan remembers Derzhavin - Pravda.Ru
A monument to Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816) — a famous Russian poet — was erected in Ladsky garden in Kazan, Tatarstan, on the 3rd of October.
The pedestal is decorated with bas-reliefs of allegorical illustrations to Derzhavin’s poems.
In the past summer, a House of people’s creativity named after Derzhavin was opened in Laishevo, Derzhavin’s native town, to celebrate the poet’s 260th birthday.
english.pravda.ru /world/2001/08/01/11445.html   (426 words)

  
 Zvanka   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816), the greatest of eighteenth-century Russian poets as well as a powerful statesman, was the third omnipresent spirit, and it was to visit his beloved estate of Zvanka on the left bank of the River Volkhov that we made our first detour.
We sailed serenely past many other villages of 'eternal Russia', including Vergezhi, the estate of the Tyrkovs and therefore of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, biographer of Pushkin and wife of the great New Zealand Slavist and journalist Harold Williams, and the barracks at Selishchi where Lermontov served.
On the right bank we saw in the sunset the domes of the Khutynsky Monastery, where Derzhavin was buried and which we were to visit on day two after an overnight stay at the Hotel 'Sadko', virtually unchanged since Soviet days.
ideashistory.org.ru /sschools/ss99/zvanka.htm   (198 words)

  
 Statue of Catherine the Great. Monuments of Saint-Petersburg, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Around the foundation of the pedestal, the sculptures of the outstanding Russian men of the second half of the 18 th century can be seen.
These are Alexander Suvorov, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Gavriil Derzhavin, Ivan Betskoy, Yekaterina Dashkova, Alexei Orlov, Alexander Bezborodko, Grigory Potemkin and Vasily Chichagov.
In spite of this unreal composition (the statue of Catherine the Great is almost twice as big as the sculptures surrounding it) and somewhat theatrical position of the Empress, this is a very realistic work of sculpture with portrait likeness.
spbcity.info /eng/statiy/monument-catherine.htm   (217 words)

  
 Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova Summary
She assisted in the publication of Nevinnoe uprazhnenie (Innocent Exercise, 1763) and as head of the two academies founded the scholarly journals Sobesednik, published from 1783 to 1784, and Novye ezhemesiachnye sochineniia (New Monthly Compositions), published from 1786 to 1796.
Actively participating in the work of these journals, she was able to attract and encourage some leading literary figures such as Gavriil Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, Iakov Kniazhnin, and Vasilii Kapnist.
Fortunately, Catherine was delighted with the poem, and Derzhavin's future was assured.
www.bookrags.com /Yekaterina_Romanovna_Vorontsova-Dashkova   (2959 words)

  
 New Left Review - Tony Wood: The Poet of Decembrism?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin became a literary figure of national importance at the age of 15, when Gavriil Derzhavin, the grand old man of Russian letters, listened in rapt attention as Pushkin read his composition for the junior examinations at the Tsarskoe Selo Lycée.
Derzhavin proclaimed that the young man would assume his mantle, and St Petersburg’s leading littérateurs immediately recognized his talent: ‘The rascal will crush us all!’ wrote Prince Petr Viazemskii, later a close friend of Pushkin.
Throughout the rest of Pushkin’s brief, turbulent life, both acclaim and criticism were freighted with a sense of national expectation; he was perceived by many to be not only Russia’s most gifted writer, but also an embodiment of its literary destiny.
www.newleftreview.org /?page=article&view=2437   (650 words)

  
 New Left Review - Tony Wood: The Poet of Decembrism?
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin became a literary figure of national importance at the age of 15, when Gavriil Derzhavin, the grand old man of Russian letters, listened in rapt attention as Pushkin read his composition for the junior examinations at the Tsarskoe Selo Lycée.
Derzhavin proclaimed that the young man would assume his mantle, and St Petersburg’s leading littérateurs immediately recognized his talent: ‘The rascal will crush us all!’ wrote Prince Petr Viazemskii, later a close friend of Pushkin.
Throughout the rest of Pushkin’s brief, turbulent life, both acclaim and criticism were freighted with a sense of national expectation; he was perceived by many to be not only Russia’s most gifted writer, but also an embodiment of its literary destiny.
newleftreview.org /?page=article&view=2437   (424 words)

  
 the biography of Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov - life story
In his house Konstantin evidently became acquainted with the poets he admired, Gavriil Derzhavin and Vasilii Kapnist; most likely he also formed there a friendship with Aleksei Nikolaevich Olenin, who was both a successful "bureaucrat" and a knowledgeable amateur of the arts.
Olenin's circle, however varied the literary opinions of its members, was the aesthetic centre of Russian Neoclassicism, or the Russian style empire, which combined the "cult of sentiment" with an interest in both classical and Northern Antiquity.
The first of these, "Bog" (God), is a direct imitation of Derzhavin's spiritual odes (Echoes of Derzhavin continued to appear in Batiushkov's mature work, but as only one element of his own, highly individual, style).
www.poemhunter.com /konstantin-nikolaevich-batiushkov/biography   (8386 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
Several research institutes, higher educational institutions, and a large number of general education and vocational schools operate in Tambov.
The names of many famous Russians are associated with Tambov territory, for example, Sergei Rachmaninov, whose name is borne by the Tambov Music School, poet Gavriil Derzhavin, who was once governor of Tambov Province, Evgeny Baratynsky, Aleksei Zhemchuzhnikov, and many others.
The famous Russian poet Gavriil Derzhavin, who was governor of Tambov Province at the time, contributed to its opening.
www.kommersant.com /t-71/r_5/n_415/Tambov_Region   (3495 words)

  
 Russia - The Beginnings   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Their work was a further step in bringing Western literary concepts to Russia.
Under Catherine, the satirical journal was adopted from Britain, and Gavriil Derzhavin advanced the evolution of Russian poetry.
Denis Fonvizin, Yakov Knyazhnin, Aleksandr Radishchev, and Nikolay Karamzin wrote controversial and innovative drama and prose works that brought Russian literature closer to its nineteenth-century role as an art form liberally furnished with social and political commentary (see Imperial Expansion and Maturation: Catherine II, ch.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-11413.html   (437 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Derzhavin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
G.R. Derzhavin: Gosudarstvennaia deiatelnost, 1784-1796 gg by O. G Levenshtein (Unknown Binding - 1997)
G.R. Derzhavin: A political biography (Studies in European history) by Jesse V Clardy (Unknown Binding - 1967)
Ode to God by Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin (Unknown Binding - 1925)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Derzhavin&index=blended&page=1   (277 words)

  
 Autumn vacation | Karelia, North of European Russia | Weekend tours | Dersu Uzala
The first governor of Olonetskoe county was the famous Russian poet Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin.
Kivach waterfall – the second largest plain waterfall in Europe on Sun River that inspired G.R. Derzhavin to the poem “Waterfall”.
The water pressed between the rocky banks tumble down from the height of 8 meters.
www.ecotours.ru /english/tours/karelia3.htm?&print=yes   (966 words)

  
 Michael A. Pesenson, Swarthmore College   (Site not responding. Last check: )
My paper will examine the rich and varied apocalyptic discourse appearing in Russia at the time of the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, focusing primarily on material published in literary and political journals of the time, such as Vestnik Evropy and Syn Otechestva.
It will also discuss lesser-known works of Gavriil Derzhavin and Vladimir Zhukovskij written to celebrate Russia’s victory over the French, as well as obscure Old Believer writings purporting Napoleon to be the Antichrist and Alexander the angelic Tsar-Savior.
Such literature virtually deified the Tsar, urging him to stamp out iniquity and godlessness, restore order in Europe, and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity.
aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/pesenson.htm   (253 words)

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