Alexander Odoevsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Odoevsky

Russian poet

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1802

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1839

Profession: writer, poet, military officer, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (Russian: ??????´??? ???´????? ???´??????, November 26 (December 8), 1802, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – October 10 (22) or August 15 (27), 1839, Psezuape, now Lazarevskoe, Sochi, Russia) was a Russian poet and playwright, one of the leading figures of the 1825 Decembrist revolt.
One of Odoevsky's lines, "Iz iskry vozgoritsa plamya" (?? ????? ?????????? ?????, One spark will start a flame), has come down in history as a long-lasting slogan of the Russian revolutionary movement.
It was chosen as a motto (signed as: the "Decembrists' reply to Pushkin") for the Lenin-founded newspaper Iskra, also giving the magazine its title, which means "spark".