BARATYNSKI, YEVGENIY ABRAMOVICH (1800 1844) , Russian poet. He served for eight years in the army in Finland, where he composed his first poem, Eda. In 1827 he settled near Moscow. There he completed his chief work, The Gipsy, a poem written in the melancholy and romantic style then the mode among the Russian admirers of Byron. He died in 1844 at Naples. On the journey to Naples he wrote one of his finest poems, The Steamboat.
A collected edition of his poems appeared at St. Petersburg (1835) later editions, Moscow (1860, and Kazan (1 884) .