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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Voronezh
- Place of death
- Voronezh
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Genre
- poetry
- Image
- Aleksey Koltsov.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Aleksey Koltsov
- start of work period
- 1825-00-00
- Commons category
- Aleksey Koltsov
- date of birth
- 1809-10-15
- date of death
- 1842-10-19
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- Russian
- ethnic group
- Russians
- P8168
- regiolect
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Aleksey Koltsov, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Portrait by Kirill Gorbunov Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Кольцо́в; October 15, 1809 – October 29, 1842) was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour. Koltsov earnestly collected Russian folklore which strongly influenced his poetry. He celebrated simple peasants, their work and their lives. Many of his poems were put to music by such composers as Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Biography
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