Vasily Ivanovich Vodovozov (russian: link=no, Василий Иванович Водовозов; 9 October 1825 – 29 May 1886) was a

Saint-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

-born Russian

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

, poet,

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

, educational theorist and translator. Elizaveta Vodovozova (1884–1923), also a children's writer, was his wife. Writing mostly for ''

Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya ''Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya'' (russian: Библиоте́ка для чте́ния, en, The Reader's Library) was a Russian monthly magazine founded in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, in 1834 by Alexander Smirdin. History The magazine "of lit ...

'', '' Otechestvennye Zapiski'', ''

Sovremennik ''Sovremennik'' ( rus, «Современник», p=səvrʲɪˈmʲenʲːɪk, a=Ru-современник.ogg, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out f ...

'' and '' Vestnik Evropy'', he published more than 120 articles and essays on education and pedagogy in Russia and Europe. Vodovozov compiled several popular compilations for children and teachers, three of which, ''Tales form Russian History'' (a set of historical documents which he provided forewords and commentaries for, 1861–1864), ''The Primary School Reader'' (1871) and ''The Book for Teachers'' (1871), received the prestigious Ushinsky Prize. A polyglot who knew ten languages, Vodovozov translated into Russian the works by

Anacreon Anacreon (; grc-gre, Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ...

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His s ...

Lucian Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore ...

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

and Beranger among many others. The best of them were included into the book ''Poetic Translations and Original Poems'' (1888). The Selected Works by V.I. Vodovozov came out in 1958 via The Soviet Pedagogical Academy Publishers.Водовозов В.И. Избранные педагогические сочинения
под ред. В. З. Смирнова; Акад. пед. наук РСФСР, Ин-т теории и истории педагогики. – М. : Изд-во Акад. пед. наук РСФСР, 1958. – 632 с.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vodovozov, Vasily 1825 births 1886 deaths Poets from the Russian Empire Educational theorists from the Russian Empire Writers from Saint Petersburg 19th-century translators from the Russian Empire Children's writers from the Russian Empire