Famous People with Name Gavrila

Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin: was the greatest Russian poet before Alexander Pushkin. Although his works are traditionally assigned to the literary Classicism, his best verse is full of antitheses and conflicting sounds in the way reminiscent of John Donne and other Metaphysical poets

Gavrila Derzhavin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Gavrila Derzhavin: was the greatest Russian poet before Alexander Pushkin. Although his works are traditionally assigned to the literary Classicism, his best verse is full of antitheses and conflicting sounds in the way reminiscent of John Donne and other Metaphysical poets. Derzhavin was born in Kazan. His distant ancestor morza Bagrim, who relocated from the Great Horde in 15th century to Moscow, was baptized and became a vassal of the Russian Grand Prince Vasily II