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Russian poet

Pavel Antokolsky
Born Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky(1896-07-01)1 July 1896Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died 9 October 1978(1978-10-09) (aged 82)Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation Poet, translator, writer
Nationality Jewish

Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky (Russian: Па́вел Григо́рьевич Антоко́льский, IPA: [ˈpavʲɪl ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɐntɐˈkolʲskʲɪj] ⓘ; 1 July 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 9 October 1978, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and theatre director. His father was a nephew of sculptor Mark Antokolsky.

In the 1930s, Antokolsky worked as a director at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. During World War II, he ran a front theatre and was awarded a Stalin Prize for a long poem about the Germans killing his son. After the war, he managed a theatre in Tomsk. His poem, "All we who in his name..." was written in 1956, the year of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" condemning Stalinism, and widely circulated among student groups in the 1950s.

Among other works, Pavel Antokolsky translated in Russian Le Dernier jour d'un condamne and Le roi s'amuse, by Victor Hugo.

A ship, now MV Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan was initially named after the poet in the Soviet Union.