Short answers, pulled from the story.
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is credited with introducing the Romantic movement into Russia, and his free translations of European poetry became classics of Russian literature, regarded by some as more enduring than the originals.
Zhukovsky served as personal Russian tutor to Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, the German-born wife of the future Tsar Nicholas I. He was later appointed tutor to her son, the future Tsar Alexander II, and many historians attribute the liberal reforms of the 1860s at least partially to his progressive educational methods.
Zhukovsky's best-known works include the ballads "Ludmila" (1808) and "Svetlana" (1813), both free adaptations of Burger's "Lenore"; the patriotic ode "A Bard in the Camp of the Russian Warriors"; and his 1849 translation of Homer's Odyssey. He also composed the lyrics for the Imperial Russian national anthem "God Save the Tsar!" and produced celebrated translations of Schiller, Goethe, and Fouque's Undine.
Zhukovsky mentored the teenage Pushkin through the Arzamas literary society and remained his lifelong friend, even after Pushkin surpassed him in originality and brilliance by the early 1820s. When Pushkin died in 1837, Zhukovsky served as his literary executor, rescuing unpublished masterpieces from censorship and preparing his work for publication.
Dostoevsky used the phrase "nash Schiller" ("our Schiller") because Zhukovsky's translations of Friedrich Schiller were so psychologically deep and naturally rendered in Russian that they were considered by many to equal or surpass the German originals. They were regarded as classics of Russian literature in their own right and strongly influenced the younger generation of Russian realists.
Zhukovsky died in Baden-Baden in 1852 at the age of sixty-nine. His body was returned to Saint Petersburg and buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra; his crypt stands directly behind the monument to Dostoevsky.