Jewgenij Abramovich Baratynski
Jewgenij Abramovich Baratynski (
1800-
1844),
Russian poet, was educated at the royal school at
St. Petersburg and then entered the army. He served for eight years in
Finland, where he composed his first poem.
Eda. Through the interest of friends he obtained leave from the tsar to retire from the army, and settled in
1827 near
Moscow. There he completed his chief work,
The Gipsy, a poem written in the style of Pushkin. He died in
1844 at
Naples, to which he had gone for the sake of the milder climate.