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pseudonym of Afanasy Afanasievitch Shenshin. A Russian poet; born in Orel, Dec. 5, 1820; died at Moscow, Dec. 4, 1892. A versifier almost from his cradle, he made himself noted in early manhood by his many charming poems: his most enduring fame resting upon the collection called "Evenings and Nights" (1883), although versions of Horace, Juvenal, Goethe, and even Shakespeare, show his scholarly and literary attainments.