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Anton Antonovich Delvig ( – ) was a Russian

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and

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of Baltic German descent.

Early life

Anton Delvig was born on . He was of Baltic German descent. He studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum together with Alexander Pushkin and Wilhelm Küchelbecker, with whom he became close friends. Küchelbecker dedicated a poem ('O, Delvig') to him; this poem was later set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich in the ninth movement of his fourteenth symphony. As a teenager, Delvig began writing poetry. He became connected with a literary group established by Alexey Olenin and the Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Career

Delvig is also mentioned in Pushkin's famous novel in verse ''

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'', being compared to the young poet Lensky. Delvig commissioned a portrait of Pushkin from Orest Kiprensky, which Pushkin bought from Delvig's widow after his friend's death.Антон Дельвиг
// Автор: Н. В. Банников In 1820, Delvig met

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and introduced him to the literary press. In his poetry, Delvig upheld the waning traditions of Russian

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. He became interested in Russian

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and wrote numerous imitations of folk songs. Some of these were put to music by the composers Alexander Alyabyev and Mikhail Glinka. As a journalist, Delvig edited the periodical '' Northern Flowers'' (1825–1831), in which Pushkin was a regular contributor. In 1830–1831, he co-edited with Pushkin the '' Literaturnaya Gazeta'', which was banned by the Tsarist government after information laid by Thaddeus Bulgarin.

Personal life

In 1825, Delvig married Sofya Saltykova; they had one daughter. He died on .

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