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18th-century poets from the Russian Empire

  • Denis FonvizinDenis Ivanovich Fonvizin entered the world in Moscow during 1745. He was born into a noble Russian Orthodox family as the first of eight children.
  • Mikhail LomonosovIn 1730, a nineteen-year-old fisherman named Mikhail Lomonosov walked one hundred miles from his village of Mishaninskaya to the city of Moscow.
  • Nikolay KaramzinNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was born in the small village of Mikhailovka near Simbirsk. This location sits within what is now Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.
  • Gavrila DerzhavinGavrila Romanovich Derzhavin entered the world on the 14th of July 1743 within the Kazan Governorate. His family belonged to a landed but impoverished branch…