Vasily Lvovich Pushkin (; 27 April 1766 – 20 August 1830) was a minor

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best known as an uncle of the much more famous

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. Vasily Pushkin was born in

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. During his early years, he served in Russia's

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Izmailovo Regiment, retiring with the rank of poruchik. Between 1803 and 1804 Pushkin lived abroad, mainly in

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. Pushkin was a neoclassical poet and was indifferent to the then-popular romantic movement. In his poem "Captain Khrabrov", Pushkin mocked romanticism. He was a follower of

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, and wrote numerous songs, epistles, and

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s in the manner of Horace, Tibullus, or Catullus. He also translated several poems of La Fontaine and other French poets. Vasily Lvovich had a sudden burst of creativity in 1810 and 1811, when he wrote his best polemical verse, including a humorous masterpiece, ''A Dangerous Neighbour'' (1811), set in a bawdyhouse. Buyanov, the main character of the poem, became a household name; Alexander Pushkin mentioned him in ''

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''. Pushkin the younger did not take his uncle's poetry seriously; at the age of 22 he apprehended that the posterity will ascribe ''A Dangerous Neighbour'' to his own juvenilia: :''All his works are not worth his Buyanov; and what will happen to him in posterity? I'm extremely afraid that my cousin .e., Buyanovwill be taken for my son...'' ushkin's letter to Peter Vyazemsky, 2 January 1822">Peter_Vyazemsky.html" ;"title="ushkin's letter to Peter Vyazemsky">ushkin's letter to Peter Vyazemsky, 2 January 1822 Due to interest in his nephew, Vasily Pushkin's works were re-published numerous times; the last and most complete collection is "V. L. Pushkin. Poems", M. Hyperion, 2005. .

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