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Konstantin Batiushkov—called the “Russian Tibullus” and the “Russian Parny” by his contemporaries—was a poet whose work largely determined the evolution of Russian poetry in the Golden Age. For contemporary as well as later critics, Batiushkov and Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovsky were the founders of a new school in Russian poetry that is usually defined as Romantic or pre-Romantic. Most of Batiushkov's poems, published during the mid 1800s and 1810s, were collected in the second volume of Opyty v stikhakh i proze (Experiments in Verse and Prose, 1817). General audiences were perhaps less impressed by Batiushkov's poetry than Zhukovsky's, but the former's influence on the younger generation of poets was extraordinary; in this sense Batiushkov could be called “a poet's poet.”
Evgenii Abramovich Baratynsky, Kondratii Fedorovich Ryleev, and, to a large degree, Aleksandr Pushkin began their careers as imitators of Batiushkov. He not only created models of several important genres of the new poetry but also was the first to begin blurring genre boundaries in his lyrics (a tendency that was later an essential feature of Russian Romantic poetry).
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