Vladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky (russian: Владимир Федосеевич Раевский; – ) was a Russian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, who participated in the

Patriotic war of 1812 The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental block ...

. After the war, when living in

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

, he became a leading member of the Southern Society of Decembrists. The world's only known statue of him is located in Tiraspol.

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1795 births 1872 deaths Russian male poets 19th-century poets 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress {{Russia-poet-stub