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Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (Russian: Яков Петрович Полонский, 18 December, 1819 — 30 October, 1898) was a leading Pushkin poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Of noble birth, Polonsky attended the Moscow University, where he befriended Apollon Grigoryev and Afanasy Fet. Three young and promising poets wrote pleasing and elegant poems, emulating Pushkin and Lermontov. He graduated from the university in 1844, publishing... full article at wikipedia

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