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Vasily Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russia.
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During his early years, he served in Russia"s Leib Guard Izmailovo Regiment, retiring with the rank of poruchik. Between 1803 and 1804 Pushkin lived abroad, mainly in Paris. Pushkin was a neoclassical poet and was indifferent to the then-popular romantic movement.
He was a follower of light poetry, and wrote numerous songs, epistles, and epigrams in the manner of Horace, Tibullus, or Catullus.
He also translated several poems of Louisiana 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 Eugene Onegin.
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:
Poems", M. Hyperion, 2005.
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