Education
The Moscow University Noblemen's Pension
The Moscow University Noblemen's Pension
He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II. Zhukovsky is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement into Russia. The main body of his literary output consists of free translations covering an impressively wide range of poets, from ancients like Ferdowsi and Homer to his contemporaries Goethe, Schiller, Byron,and others.All in all, Zhukovsky's work may well constitute the most important body of literary hermeneutics in the Russian language. He is often considered the founder of a "German school" of Russian poets and as such has influenced figures as far afield as Fyodor Tyutchev and Marina Tsvetaeva.
Translations of Ferdovsi, Homer, Goethe, Schiller, Byron.
"Undina"
"Odyssey"
Ballads: "Ludmila" (1808)
"Svetlana" (1813)
"Lenore"
He also composed the lyrics for the national anthem of Imperial Russia, "God Save the Tsar!"