There are a great number of Russian translations of the Rubaiyat (Robāʾiyāt) of Omar Khayyam (ʿOmar Ḵayyām). By the early…

ZHUKOVSKIĬ, Valentin Alekseevich (b. Voronezh, 17 May [5 May Old Style] 1858; d. Petrograd, 17 January [4 January Old style]…