Derzhavin

Derzhavin also has his grandest poem on God, translated there: this poem is popular in no less than thirty-six languages, and is familiar to the Chinese and Tartar nations, and even as far as Southern India.

Crimean War, the, 160, 202, 238 Danilevsky, 180 Daudet, 172 “Decembrist” rising, the, 44, 45, 61, 92 Delvig, Baron, 101 Demetrius, 21, 67 Derzhavin, 29, 56 Diderot, 27 Dobrolyubov, 180, 181, 227 Donne, John, 97 Dostoyevsky, 96, 99, 109, 143, 145, 160, 161, 164, 167, 173, 180, 192, 196 f.,

In these poems, consisting for the greater part of anacreontics and epistles, although they are immature, and imitative, partly of contemporary authors such as Derzhavin and Zhukovsky, and partly of the French anacreontic school of poets, such as Voltaire, Gresset and Parny, the sound of a new voice was unmistakable.

Indeed, not only his contemporaries, but the foremost representatives of the Russian literature of that day, Derzhavin, Karamzin and Zhukovsky, made no mistake about it.

Derzhavin was enthusiastic over the recitation of his Recollections of Tsarskoe Selo.