Yevgeny Baratynsky

Yevgeny Baratynsky
Portrait of Baratynsky by Francois Frederic Chevalier, 1830s
Born	Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800-03-02)2 March 1800 Vyazhlya, Kirsanov Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	11 July 1844(1844-07-11) (aged 44) Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Occupation	Poet

Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky^[1] (Russian: Евге́ний Абра́мович Бараты́нский; 2 March [O.S. 19 February]  1800 – 11 July 1844) was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet.^{[citation needed]} After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Russian Symbolism poets as a supreme poet of thought.^{[citation needed]}