List of Famous people with last name Zhukovsky

Vasily Zhukovsky

First Name Vasily
Died on April 24, 1852

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

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Nikolay Zhukovsky

Николай Егорович Жуковский
First Name Nikolay
Born on January 5, 1847
Died on March 17, 1921 (aged 74)

Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow. He is often called the Father of Russian Aviation.

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