Zhukovsky biography composition
Zhukovsky was born on January 29, February 9, the boy adopted and gave him his last name and middle name, the impoverished landowner Andrei Grigoryevich Zhukovsky, a friend of A. Bunin, who lived in their house. In a legitimate marriage, A. Bunin and his wife Maria Grigoryevna in the girlishness of Bezobraova had 11 children, of which by the city of Ivan, at a young age in the city of Zhukovsky in the Barsky house, they did not separate from other children and surrounded the same cares and affection.
According to the prevailing romantic legend, Maria Grigoryevna fell in love with him as her own son. In the city of Zhukovsky, he was given to the boarding house of Christopher Roda. During the training, the boy did not show his abilities for science and in the city sheltered the family of the impatient sister Varvara Afanasyevna Yushkova. In these years, V. Zhukovsky was carried away by the theater and began to show interest in literature.
At the end of the boarding house in the city of in - gg. The first success of V. Zhukovsky was brought by the elegy “Rural Cemetery”, “Evening” and the romantic ballad “Lyudmila” by the work of V. Zhukovsky - GG. Among the features of the new school: focus on the "life of the soul" and its main values of friendship, love, sensitive perception of nature, intonation of sadness, melodicity of verse.
Later, in the lyrics of V. Zhukovsky in St. Petersburg, young writers who made up the Arzamas circle rallied. Zhukovsky was invited to the Russian language teacher to Princess Charlotte, the future Empress Alexandra Fedorovna. He enjoyed universal love and soon became his man in the royal family. A calm life at the court contributed to the heyday of the poet's work.
In addition to his own works by V. Zhukovsky, A. Pushkin graduated from the reading of Ruslan and Lyudmila and received his portrait with the signature from him: “The winner-student from the defeated teacher ...”. Zhukovsky served at the court as an educator of the heir to the throne, future emperor Alexander II. An individual training program was developed for the young prince, consisting of three stages and covering the age of 8 to 20 years.
V. Zhukovsky saw the main task in the upbringing in “indicating the path to the soul of the young prince not only to understand everything beautiful, but to love the beautiful so that his soul would find pleasure to do good and feel aversion to evil.” Zhukovsky himself taught the heir the Russian language, grammar, history, physics and chemistry. The mentor carefully selected books for reading.
Some of the books of the young man had to read one, part - they read together to then discuss what they read. At the insistence of V. Zhukovsky to the military disciplines of Tsarevich Alexander, they began to teach only from 11 years old, and not from 9, as previously adopted. Zhukovsky participated in the development of the travel route and leading the retinue of the heir.
Zhukovsky resigned as a secret adviser and left for Germany, where he married the daughter of a German artist G. his main labor at that time was the translation of the poem “Odyssey” the last, original poem “Agasfer, Eternal Jew” ed.
He died on April 12, after cremation, the ashes were transported to St. Petersburg to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Zhukovsky V. Petrograd,