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Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky
Russian writer
Quick Facts
- Died:
- August 6 [August 17], 1768, St. Petersburg (aged 65)
- Notable Works:
- “Les Aventures de Télémaque”
- Subjects Of Study:
- Russian literature
- poetry
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (born February 22 (March 5, New Style), 1703, Astrakhan, Russia—died August 6 [August 17], 1768, St. Petersburg) was a Russian literary theoretician and poet whose writings contributed to the classical foundations of Russian literature. The son of a poor priest, Trediakovsky became the first Russian not of the nobility to receive a humanistic education abroad, at the Sorbonne in Paris (1727–30). Soon after his return to Russia he became acting secretary of the Academy of Sciences and de facto court poet. In 1735 Trediakovsky published Novy i kratky sposob k slozheniyu rossiyskikh stikhov (“A New and Concise ...(100 of 222 words)