Romantic Poet Vasily Zhukovsky and His Tragic Love

Few know about the drama in the personal life of Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky – an outstanding poet, brilliant translator, friend and patron of A.S. Pushkin, and mentor to the future Emperor Alexander II.

Maria Protasova became the first and greatest love in the poet's life. In the relationship of these extraordinary people, the tenderness of feelings and spiritual closeness blended so completely that neither he nor she could imagine life without each other. It did not matter whether they were close together or far apart – their thoughts and feelings were tightly and forever bonded. There could be no other love for them.

Life circumstances did not allow Vasily and Maria to unite, and a deep, unhealed wound remained in the poet's heart.