Baratynski

Baratynski, JEVGENI ABRAMOVICH, an eminent Russian poet, born within the government of Tambov in 1800, became one of the pages at St Petersburg, but was dismissed at fifteen for some boyish freaks. He enlisted as a private soldier three years later, and by seven years' service in Finland fought his way to the rank of an officer, which, however, he soon resigned to devote himself to a literary life. His first poem, Eda, is a mirror of Finnish life and feeling; his greatest, The Gipsy. He died in 1844 at Naples.