Alexander Odoevsky
Russian poet
Died when: 36 years 318 days (442 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (Russian: ??????´??? ???´????? ???´??????, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Odoevskiy, 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".
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