Konstantin Batyushkov

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Batyushkov.
Konstantin Batyushkov
Portrait by unknown artist, 1810s
Portrait by unknown artist, 1810s
BornKonstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov
(1787-05-29)29 May 1787
Vologda, Russian Empire
Died19 July 1855(1855-07-19) (aged 68)
Vologda, Russian Empire
Occupation
  • Poet
  • essayist
  • translator
  • diplomat

Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov (Russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Ба́тюшков, IPA: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ ˈbatʲʊʂkəf] ⓘ; 29 May [O.S. 18 May] 1787 – 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1855) was a Russian poet, essayist and translator of the Romantic era. He also served in the diplomatic corps, spending an extended period in 1818 and 1819 as a secretary to the Russian diplomatic mission at Naples.[1]

Portrait by Orest Kiprensky (1815)
Batyushkov in 1815; portrait by Nikolai Utkin

References

  1. ^ N. V. Fridman, Поэзия Батюшкова, Moscow, Nauka, 1971, pp. 124, 248.

Further reading

  • Batyushkov, Konstantin (2017). Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry. Russian Library. Presented and translated by Peter France. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-18540-0.
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