Afanasy Fet
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Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, later known as Shenshin, was a Russian poet regarded as the finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature.
Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1882
Afanasy Fet in 1860; photograph by Andrey Denyer
Alter Ego. 1875 poem autograph.
Fet in his later years
Mtsensk
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Mtsensk is a town in Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Zusha River 49 kilometers northeast of Oryol, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 43,222; 47,807; 48,400; 28,000.
Afanasy Fet
…finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature. Afanasy Fet was born on 5 December 1820 to Afanasy Shenshin, a 44-year-old Russian landlord from Mtsensk, and Charlotte Becker, a 22-year-old daughter of Karl Becker, a German inn-keeper. While staying with them during his visit to Germany, Shenshin fell…
Mtsensk railway station
St. George Church in Mtsensk
memorial to fallen Soviet soldiers