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Russian poet and translator
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2 February 1784(Poltava)
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3 February 1833(Moscow, Saint Petersburg)
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Biography
Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Гне́дич; IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ]; 13 February [O.S. 2 February] 1784 – 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1833) was a Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His translation of the Iliad (1807–29) is still the standard one.
Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as "a noble exploit worthy of Achilles" and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines "With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights..." [1]
Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameters, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:
He also wrote Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803), probably the first example of Russian Gothic fiction.