Aleksei Nikolaevich Apukhtin
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Aleksei Nikolaevich Apukhtin was a Russian poet of the nineteenth
century. He was born in 1840 in Bolkhovo in the Orel Province and died
in 1893 of dropsy. He lived most of his life in St. Petersburg where he
was a notable member of the literary milieu, where he circulated among
famous authors like Tolstoy and Turgeniev. He owes his most enduring
legacy to Piotr Tchaikovsky who set 6 of his poems to music.