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Denis Vasilyevich Davydov (, ; – ) was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his own life to illustrate such poetry. He suggested and successfully pioneered guerrilla warfare in the Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon.
He was high-spirited, healthy, virile, unromantic, and shallow. He was a great wit and fond of fun, in life as well as in literature. His early and most popular verses are in a style of his own making, known as the "hussar style." In them he sings the praise of reckless valor, on the field of battle as well as before the bottle. The diction in some is rather unconventional, and occasionally his words have to be replaced by dots, but it is always full of spirit and great rhythmical go. His later poems are inspired by a late love for a very young girl. They are passionately sentimental, and vivid and alive. Pushkin had a high opinion of his poetry and said that Davydov had shown him the way to be original.
His poems were admired by Vissarion Belinsky for their organic quality and "Russianness".
Davydov fought in the Russo-Iranian War of 1826-1828.
His grave, with his statue above it, is situated next to the exit door of the Katholikon of the Novodevichy Convent.
In the 20th and 21st century, at least 4 ships associated with the name of D. Davydov as an object of intangible heritage.Patriotic War of 1812 about the liberation campaigns of the Russian Army of 1813-1814. Sources. Monuments. Problems. Materials of the XXIII International Scientific Conference, 3–5 September 2019. Borodino, 2020. // S. Yu. Rychkov. The historical memory about the participants of the Borodino battle in the names of ships. PP.302-329.
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