Ivan Dmitriev

thumb| Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (Ива́н Ива́нович Дми́триев; 21 September [O.S. 10 September] 1760 – 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1837) was a Russian statesman. He was also a poet associated with the sentimentalist movement in Russian literature. Quotes And you, our champion, will live for the ages,As our honor, our glory, and a paragon to all!There, where the mountains prop up the clouds,A multitude of sonorous rivers will spring up,And from the millstone a mighty forest emerge;Verdant gardens will burgeon upon the plainsAnd cities will arise and vanish, with time;An infinity of new marvels nature will create;Be they revealed to our astonished gaze;A new light will illuminate the cosmos,And the warrior, heartened by your blood,Remembering you, will become in his prideGreater ingrained, and further, further confirmedIn his unshakable love for our fatherland! "Liberation of Moscow" (Summer 1795); translated by Alex Cigale, in Ilya Perelmuter, ed., Four Centuries: Russian Poetry in Translation, no. 16 (Perelmuter Verlag, 2017), p. 12 External links Works by and about Ivan Dmitriev on Russian Wikisource John Bowring, Specimens of the Russian Poets, 2nd ed. (London, 1821), vol. 1 Category:1760 births Category:1837 deaths Category:Politicians from Russia Category:Poets from Russia Category:Members of the Russian Academy