Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky 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 Alexander II.
- Occupation
- linguist, poet, translator, writer
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- February 9, 1783, January 29, 1783
- Died
- April 24, 1852, April 12, 1852
