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Baron

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 Anton Antonovich Delvig ' onMouseout='HidePop("89082")' href="/topics/Moscow">Moscow

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 - , St. Petersburg

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) was a Russia

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n poet

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 and journalist

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 who studied in the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum

Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum

The Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg also known historically as the Imperial Alexander Lyceum after its founder the Emperor Alexander I with the object of educating youths of the best families, who should afterwards occupy important posts in the Imperial service.Its...

 together with Alexander Pushkin, with whom he became a close friend. Pushkin dedicated a poem ('O, Delvig') to him. Delvig commissioned a portrait of Pushkin from Orest Kiprensky

Orest Kiprensky

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably Alexander Pushkin's portrait , which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me".- Biography :...

 which Pushkin bought from Delvig's widow after his friend's death.

In his poetry, Delvig upheld the waning traditions of Russian Neoclassicism

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. He became interested in Russian folklore

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 and wrote numerous imitations of folk songs. Some of these were put to music by the composers Alexander Alyabyev

Alexander Alyabyev

Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev, also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff was a Russian composer. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical comedies, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces. His most famous work is The Nightingale, a song based on a poem by Anton Delvig. It was composed while...

 and Mikhail Glinka

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As a journalist, Delvig edited the periodical Northern Flowers

Northern Flowers

Northern Flowers was a Russian language literary almanac published yearly in Saint Petersburg from 1825 to 1832. The full title in Russian was Северные цветы, собранные бароном Дельвигом Northern Flowers was a Russian language literary almanac published yearly in Saint Petersburg from 1825 to 1832....

(1825–1831), in which Pushkin was a regular contributor. In 1830–1831, he co-edited with Pushkin the Literaturnaya Gazeta

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(1830–1831), which was banned by the Tsarist government after information laid by Faddei Bulgarin

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