Viktor Teplyakov

1804–1842 (age 38)

Biography

Viktor Teplyakov was a Russian poet whose literary career emerged during the early nineteenth century, a golden age of Russian literature. His work participated in the cultural flowering that characterized Russian Romantic poetry and the broader intellectual movements of his era.

Teplyakov's life spanned thirty-eight years of significant literary development in Russia. His presence in Paris, where he was ultimately buried, reflects the cosmopolitan nature of Russian intellectual circles and the connections between Russian and Western European cultural centers during the Romantic period.