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How did Vasily Zhukovsky respond to the success of Ruslan and Ludmila?
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Vasily Tropinin, 1827; in the National Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg.
Following the success of Aleksandr Pushkin’s romantic narrative poem Ruslan and Ludmila, the established poet Vasily Zhukovsky acknowledged the younger author's achievement with a gesture of profound professional respect. Zhukovsky presented his own portrait to Pushkin, inscribed with the words: "To the victorious pupil from the defeated master."12