Vasily Ivanovich Maykov (Василий Иванович Майков, 1728,

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, - 28 June 1778,

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, Russian Empire) — was a

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fabulist Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral ...

, playwright and

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, an exponent of the

mock-heroic Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic ...

poetry genre in Russia. As a playwright Maykov followed the tradition set by

Alexander Sumarokov Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Сумаро́ков; , Moscow – , Moscow) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonos ...

but, alongside heroic tragedies (''Agriope'', Агриопа, 1775) wrote some comedies too (''The Country Holiday or a Rewarded Virtue'', Деревенский праздник, или Увенчанная добродетель, 1777), occasionally mixing the two genres. As a lyrical poet he is said to have provided a link between the two eras in the Russian poetry, that of Mikhail Lomonosov on the one hand and

Gavriil Derzhavin Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin ( rus, Гаврии́л (Гаври́ла) Рома́нович Держа́вин, p=ɡɐˈvrilə rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪrˈʐavʲɪn, a=Gavrila Romanovich Dyerzhavin.ru.vorb.oga; 14 July 1743 – 20 ...

, on another. What Maykov really excelled at, though, was ironic verse, and it was the comedy ''The Ombre Player'' (Игрок ломбера) that made him famous in 1763. The Works by V.I.Maykov were first compiled in 1809, to be revised and re-issued by

Pyotr Yefremov Pyotr Alexandrovich Yefremov (russian: Пётр Александрович Ефремов; November 17, 1830 ( O.S., 2) in Moscow, Russian Empire – January 8, 1908 .S. December 26, 1907in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary ...

in 1867. In the USSR The Selected Works by V.I. Maykov were published in 1966 by

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.Timofeev, L.I.
Майков В. И.
in the Soviet Literary Encyclopedia in 11 Volumes. Vol. 6, 1932. Pp. 700-701 // Литературная энциклопедия: В 11 т. — �. 1929—1939. Т. 6. «Сов. Энцикл.», 1932. — Стр. 700—701.

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