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|name                = Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin
|image               = Autograph of Eastern poem to death of Pushkin.jpg
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|author              = [[Mirza Fatali Akhundov]]
|original_title      = {{langx|az|Mirzə Fətəli Axundov}}
|translator          = [[Mirza Fatali Akhundov]]
|first               = Moskovskiy Telegraph
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|country             = [[Russian Empire]]
|language            = [[Persian language|Persian]]
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'''"Eastern poem on the death of [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkin]]"''' is an [[elegy]] of [[Azerbaijan]]i author [[Mirza Fatali Akhundov]], composed in 1837 in [[Persian language|Persian]]. This poem was his first published work.<ref name="iranica">[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/akundzada-playwright Āḵūndzāda. Iranica]</ref> In 1837 Akhundov prepared a Russian prose translation of his poem, and his friend [[Alexander Bestuzhev|Bestuzhev]] a versified one. First time the poem was published in the journal "Moskovskiy Telegraph" (Akhundov's translation).<ref>Канд. филол. наук А. 3. Розенфельд. А. С. Пушкин в персидских переводах. — Вестник Ленинградского университета, 1949. — № 6. — С. 83.</ref> The poem was also published in the journal "Moskovskiĭ Nablyudatel", with an editorial note welcoming the poem as a tribute not merely to Pushkin but to Russian culture as a whole.<ref name="iranica"/> Translation of Bestuzhev was published in 1874 in journal "[[Russkaya Starina]]". Original version of the poem was found and published only in 1936 (translator [[Pavel Antokolsky]]).
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[[Category:1837 poems]]
[[Category:Azerbaijani poetry]]
[[Category:Works by Mirza Fatali Akhundzade]]
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