Derzhavin

13 hrs. 56 min.

Language Russian

Author Oleg Mikhaylov

Narrator Kirill Petrov

Description

“Derzhavin, scourge of the noblemen; at the sound of his thunderous lyre, he exposed their proud idols”—these words by Pushkin are about one of the brightest and most significant Russian writers and poets of the 18th century, Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743–1816). His honesty and directness, his open and proud character, and the complex fate of a man who walked the path from soldier to minister are the subject of a historical and biographical novel by prose writer and literary scholar Oleg Mikhaylov (1932–2013), “Derzhavin.”