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Airship
Horace Vernet Napoleon Rising Out of His Tomb
AuthorMikhail Lermontov
Original title«Возду́шный кора́бль. Из Це́длица»
LanguageRussian
SeriesNapoleonic cycle Lermontov's poems
GenreRomantic drama
Publication date1840
Publication placeRussian Empire

«Airship. From Zedlitz» («On the blue waves of the ocean ... ») (Russian: «Возду́шный кора́бль. Из Це́длица» («По синим волнам океана…»)) is a ballad from the Napoleonic cycle Lermontov's poems, written and published in 1840. It is a free translation from the German language Austrian romantic writings of Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, titled Das Geisterschiff ("ghost ship", 1832). The individual fragments of Russian poem were influenced by another ballad of the same Austrian author - "Night parade" (Die nächtliche Heerschau; 1827), published in Russian in 1836 in translation by Zhukovsky.

Illustrations

The poem was illustrated by Veniamin Belkin, Ivan Bilibin, V.I. Komarov, Vladimir Konashevich (ed.), Dmitry Mitrohin, L.M. Nepomnyashchii, Leonid Pasternak, Vardges Sureniants, Paul Chmaroff and others.

References

  1. Пульхритудова Е. М. "Воздушный корабль". Лермонтовская энциклопедия.

Literature

  • Lermontov encyclopedia. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1981. p. 746.
  • Lermontov in music. Directory. Moscow: Soviet composer. 1983. p. 176.
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