Derzhaven, Gabriel, a Russian lyric poet, born at Kasan; rose from the ranks as a common soldier to the highest offices in the State under the Empress Catharine II. and her successors; retired into private life, and gave himself up to poetry; the ode by which he is best known is his “Address to the Deity” (1743‒1816).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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