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Born	March 5, 1703 • Astrakhan • Russia
Died	August 17, 1768 (aged 65) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Notable Works	“Les Aventures de Télémaque”
Subjects Of Study	Russian literature • poetry

Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam

Russian poet

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

Russian author

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva

Russian poet

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879

Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy

Russian writer

Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov

Russian poet

Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev

Russian poet

Antiokh Dmitriyevich Kantemir

Russian poet

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Russian poet

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet

Russian author

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Alexander Pope

English author

Ezra Pound

American poet

William Congreve

English dramatist

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Robert Graves

British writer

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

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