Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852) - Author Collection

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.