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Article: Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin

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Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin , 1743-1816, Russian classical poet. His satirical ode to Catherine II, Felitsa (1782), won her favor, and he became poet laureate and later Minister of Justice. The Ode to God (1784, tr. in ...

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