Semyon Nadson
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Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson (Template:Lang-ru; 14 December 1862 – 19 January 1887) was a Russian Empire poet.
Nadson's grandfather was a Jew who converted to the Greek Orthodox religion, his father was an official in St. Petersburg. His mother, Antonina Stepanovna Mamontova, was a Russian Orthodox, offspring of an old noble family.
Despite publishing only one book of poems (he died of tuberculosis at age 24), Nadson enjoyed a significant success, although underrated by critics for long time. His Poem "Pora" ("It Is Time" in English), was set to music by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Op.14, No. 12). Some of his other poems were also incorporated into songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff, César Cui, etc.[1]
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- Several poems by Nadson translated into English
- A Nadson poem (Russian)
- Short Nadson biography and list of poems (Russian)
- Article on Nadson's death (Russian)
Categories:
- Imperial Russian poets
- Imperial Russian male writers
- Russian male poets
- Russian people of Jewish descent
- 19th-century Russian people
- Imperial Russian Christians
- Writers from Saint Petersburg
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- 1862 births
- 1887 deaths
- 19th-century poets
- 19th-century male writers
- Russian poet stubs