Editing Gavrila Derzhavin (section)

== Influence ==

According to [[D.S. Mirsky|D. S. Mirsky]], "Derzhavin's poetry is a universe of amazing richness; its only drawback was that the great poet was of no use either as a master or as an example. He did nothing to raise the level of literary taste or to improve the literary language, and as for his poetical flights, it was obviously impossible to follow him into those giddy spheres."<ref>[[D.S. Mirsky]]. ''A History of Russian Literature''. Northwestern University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-8101-1679-0}}. Page 53.</ref> Nevertheless, [[Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov|Nikolai Nekrasov]] professed to follow Derzhavin rather than Pushkin, and Derzhavin's line of broken rhythms was continued by [[Marina Tsvetaeva]] in the 20th century. In 1995, [[Tambov State University]] was named after Gavrila Derzhavin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eng.tsutmb.ru/history-of-tambov-state-university.html |title=History |access-date=2019-11-08 |archive-date=2019-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108193049/http://eng.tsutmb.ru/history-of-tambov-state-university.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>[[Image:Pushkin derzhavin.jpg|thumb|300px|''16-year-old [[Pushkin]] reciting his poem before old Derzhavin in the [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]]'' (1911 painting by [[Ilya Repin]]).]]

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