Airship (ballad)

«Airship. From Zedlitz» is a ballad from the Napoleonic cycle Lermontov's poems, written and published in 1840. It is a free translation from the German language Austrian romantic writings of Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, titled Das Geisterschiff. The individual fragments of Russian poem were influenced by another ballad of the same Austrian author - "Night parade", published in Russian in 1836 in translation by Zhukovsky.

Illustrations

The poem was illustrated by Veniamin Belkin, Ivan Bilibin, V.I. Komarov, Vladimir Konashevich, Dmitry Mitrohin, L.M. Nepomnyashchii, Leonid Pasternak, Vardges Sureniants, Paul Chmaroff and others.

Literature

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