{{Short description|Russian poet and journalist (1798–1831)}} {{infobox person | name = Anton Antonovich Delvig | image = PGRS 2 029 Delvig - crop.jpg | caption = [[Lithograph]] by [[Pyotr Borel]], 1864–1869 | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|17 August|1798|6 August}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], Russia | death_date = {{OldStyleDate|26 January|1831|14 January}} | death_place = [[St. Petersburg]], Russia | occupation = {{hlist|Poet|journalist}} | education = [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]] }} [[Baron]] '''Anton Antonovich Delvig'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Анто́н Анто́нович Де́львиг}}, {{langx|ru|Антонъ Антоновичъ Дельвигъ|label=[[Reforms of Russian orthography|pre-reform spelling]]}}, {{IPA|ru|ɐnˈton ɐnˈtonəvʲɪtɕ ˈdelʲvʲɪk}}; {{langx|de|Anton Antonowitsch Freiherr{{efn|{{German title|Freiherr}}}} von Delwig}}.}} ({{OldStyleDate|17 August|1798|6 August}} – {{OldStyleDate|26 January|1831|14 January}}) was a Russian [[poet]] and [[journalist]] of [[Baltic German]] descent.

==Early life == Anton Delvig was born on {{OldStyleDate|17 August|1798|6 August}}.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}} He was of [[Baltic German]] descent.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}} He studied at the [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]] together with [[Alexander Pushkin]] and [[Wilhelm Küchelbecker]], with whom he became close friends.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}} Küchelbecker dedicated a poem ('O, Delvig') to him; this poem was later set to music by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] in the ninth movement of his [[Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)|fourteenth symphony]]. As a teenager, Delvig began writing poetry.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}} He became connected with a literary group established by [[Alexey Olenin]] and the [[Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts]].{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}}

==Career== Delvig is also mentioned in Pushkin's famous [[novel in verse]] ''[[Eugene Onegin]]'', being compared to the young poet [[Eugene Onegin#Main characters|Lensky]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pushkin |first1=Alexander |title=Eugene Onegin |date=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0809316307 |page=141}}</ref> Delvig commissioned a portrait of Pushkin from [[Orest Kiprensky]], which Pushkin bought from Delvig's widow after his friend's death.<ref>[http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/delvig/articles.html Антон Дельвиг] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214224521/http://litera.ru/stixiya/authors/delvig/articles.html |date=2011-12-14 }} // Автор: Н. В. Банников</ref> In 1820, Delvig met [[Yevgeny Baratynsky]] and introduced him to the literary press.

In his poetry, Delvig upheld the waning traditions of Russian [[Neoclassicism]]. He became interested in Russian [[folklore]] and wrote numerous imitations of folk songs. Some of these were put to music by the composers [[Alexander Alyabyev]] and [[Mikhail Glinka]].<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fplib.ru/biografii/bio19v/delvig/ |title=Дельвиг А. А. |access-date=2016-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214912/http://www.fplib.ru/biografii/bio19v/delvig/ |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As a journalist, Delvig edited the periodical ''[[Northern Flowers]]'' (1825&ndash;1831), in which Pushkin was a regular contributor.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}} In 1830&ndash;1831, he co-edited with Pushkin the ''[[Literaturnaya Gazeta]]'', which was banned by the Tsarist government after information laid by [[Thaddeus Bulgarin]].

==Personal life== [[File:Sofia Saltykova.jpg|thumb|Delvig's wife, Sofya Saltykova (1806–1888)|upright=0.8]] In 1825, Delvig married Sofya Saltykova; they had one daughter.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}} He died on {{OldStyleDate|26 January|1831|14 January}}.{{sfn|Cornwell|2013|p=17}}

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== References == {{Reflist}}

==Sources== * {{cite Efron|Дельвиг, Антон Антонович}} * {{cite book |last1=Cornwell |first1=Neil |title=Reference Guide to Russian Literature |date=2 December 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26070-6 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reference_Guide_to_Russian_Literature/uXxEAgAAQBAJ |language=en |chapter=Anton Antonovich Del'vig, 1798–1831|page=17}}

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