| Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin | |
| Author: | Mirza Fatali Akhundov |
| Original Title: | Azerbaijani: Mirzə Fətəli Axundov |
| Translator: | Mirza Fatali Akhundov |
| First: | Moskovskiy Telegraph |
| Country: | Russian Empire |
| Language: | Persian |
"Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin" is an elegy of Azerbaijani author Mirza Fatali Akhundov, composed in 1837 in Persian. This poem was his first published work.[1] In 1837 Akhundov prepared a Russian prose translation of his poem, and his friend Bestuzhev a versified one. First time the poem was published in the journal "Moskovskiy Telegraph" (Akhundov's translation).[2] The poem was also published in the journal "Moskovskiĭ Nablyudatel", with an editorial note welcoming the poem as a tribute not merely to Pushkin but to Russian culture as a whole.[1] Translation of Bestuzhev was published in 1874 in journal "Russkaya Starina". Original version of the poem was found and published only in 1936 (translator Pavel Antokolsky).