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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky |
 | | He was the illegitimate son of a landlord, Afanasii Ivanovich Bunin, and a Turkish woman named Salkha, who had been captured at the siege of Bender in 1770 (the name and nationality of his mother is omitted from at least one Soviet account, presumably for nationalistic or puritanical reasons). |
 | | After he left the pension, Zhukovsky worked briefly in the Moscow Salt Office, a post he left under a cloud after his negligent attitude incurred the wrath of his superior (the nachalnik) and he was briefly placed under formal arrest. |
 | | Zhukovsky was to become perhaps Russias greatest translator of verse, from French, German, English and Classical sources. |
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