"Eastern poem on the death of
Pushkin" is an
elegy of
Azerbaijani author
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Mirza Fatali Akhundov ( az, Mirzə Fətəli Axundov; fa, میرزا فتحعلی آخوندزاده), also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (12 July 1812 – 9 March 1878), was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, pla ...
, composed in 1837 in
Persian. This poem was his first published work.
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/ref> In 1837 Akhundov prepared a Russian prose translation of his poem, and his friend Bestuzhev a versified one. First time the poem was published in the journal "Moskovskiy Telegraph" (Akhundov's translation).[Канд. филол. наук А. 3. Розенфельд. А. С. Пушкин в персидских переводах. — Вестник Ленинградского университета, 1949. — № 6. — С. 83.] The poem was also published in the journal "Moskovskiĭ Nablyudatel", with an editorial note welcoming the poem as a tribute not merely to Pushkin but to Russian culture as a whole.Pavel Antokolsky
Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky ( rus, Па́вел Григо́рьевич Антоко́льский, p=ˈpavʲɪl ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɐntɐˈkolʲskʲɪj, a=Pavyel Grigor'yevich Antokol'skiy.ru.vorb.oga; 1 July 1896, Saint Petersburg, Ru ...
).
Sources
1837 poems
Azerbaijani poetry
Works by Mirza Fatali Akhundzade
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