Nikolay Yazykov

Nikolay Yazykov; portrait by Emmanuil Dmitriev-Mamonov.

Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Язы́ков; March 16 [O.S. March 4] 1803 – January 7 1847 [O.S. December 26, 1846]) was a Russian poet and Slavophile who in the 1820s rivalled Alexander Pushkin and Yevgeny Baratynsky as the most popular poet of his generation.