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Petrov Vasily Petrovich
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Petrov V. P. (1736-1799), poet
PETROV Vasily Petrovich (1736-1799) poet, translator, collegiate counsellor (1786). Graduated from the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow (1760). He became popular owing to the Ode to a Carrousel - the poetic description of the knights' gala
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Maykov V.I. (1730-1778), poet, playwright
MAYKOV Vasily Ivanovich (1730-1778) poet, playwright, brigadier (1775). He received no systematic education. He lived in St. Petersburg in 1747-61 (he served in the Semenovsky Life-guards Regiment) and in 1768-75
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