Mikhail Dmitriyev
Tchaikovsky Research
Russian poet, critic and translator (b. 23 May/3 June 1796 at Bogorodskoye; d. 5/17 September 1866 in Moscow), born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dmitriyev (Михаил Александрович Дмитриев).
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Dmitriyev
A Russian translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1785 German poem An die Freude (To Joy), made in 1843 by Dmitriyev with Konstantin Aksakov (1817-1860) and Vladimir Benediktov (1807-1873), was used by Tchaikovsky in his cantata Ode to Joy (1865).
