Gavriil Derzhavin

Gabril Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816) is a giant figure in the history of Russian classical literature. But the vest poles in his fate were, perhaps, not books, not AD, not a collection of writings. He fell itself primarily by state person. In different years, Derzhavin held the highest positions of the Russian Empire: heading the Olonetsk and Tambov province, was the Cabinet-secretary of Empress Catherine Great, President of the Commerce-Collegia, Minister of Justice under the Emperor Alexandra. And while remained the first poet of the empire.
One is God, one of Derzhavin - so he could write about himself only a truly brilliant poet, and it doesn"t matter that it is a quotation from ironic essentially poems.
For many of us, Derzhanin remained in memory only thanks to Pushkin rows: already on the threshold of death, "in the coffin coming", he "blessed the future of the Sun of our poetry, Lyceist Pushkin. But the creativity of the Derzhavin himself is not completely outdated. It became unexpectedly relevant in the 20th century and remains as this day. Many roads in Russia are literary, political, military - lead to Derzhavin "- so approves the author of the book, historian and writer Arseny Zavostyanov