Aleksei Nikolaevich Apukhtin

Aleksei Nikolaevich Apukhtin was a Russian poet of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1840 in Bolkhovo in the Orel Province and died in 1893 of dropsy. He lived most of his life in St. Petersburg where he was a notable member of the literary milieu, where he circulated among famous authors like Tolstoy and Turgeniev. He owes his most enduring legacy to Piotr Tchaikovsky who set 6 of his poems to music.