Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (Russian: Николай Иванович Гнедич) (February 2(13), 1784, Poltava - February 3(15), 1833, Petersburg) was a Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His brilliant translation of the Iliad (1807-29) is still the standard one. February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Poltava (Ukrainian: Полта́ва) is a city and oblast center in Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine with some 2,313,400 inhabitants (2004). ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Several places in the United States of America have the name Petersburg: Petersburg, Alaska Petersburg, Illinois Petersburg, Indiana Petersburg, Iowa Petersburg, Michigan Petersburg, Nebraska Petersburg, Ohio Petersburg, Virginia Petersburg, West Virginia Slight variations appear in the names of: Petersburgh, New York Saint Petersburg, Russia Saint Petersburg, Florida Petersburg was the... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... An idyll is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocrituss short pastoral poems, the Idylls. ... The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ...

Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as "a noble exploit worthy of Achilles" and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines "With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights..." [1] Aleksandr Pushkin was a Russian poet and a founder of modern Russian literature Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин) (June 6 (May 26, O.S.), 1799 - February 10 (January 29, O.S.), 1837), Russian author, whom many consider the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ... For other uses, see Achilles (disambiguation). ...

Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameters, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet: "Kriv byl Gnedich poet, prelozhitel slepogo Gomera, / Bokom odnim s obraztsom skhozh i ego perevod." An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement. ... Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. ...