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О! не знай сих страшных снов — Vasily Zhukovsky

"О! не знай сих страшных снов Ты, моя Светлана... Как приятный ручейка Блеск на лоне луга, Будь вся жизнь ее светла, Будь веселость, как была, Дней ее подруга."
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Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Zhukovsky
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future tsar Alexander II.