Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–92) was a tutor in Moscow from 1840 to 1844. He traveled further east, learning languages such as Georgian and Armenian. Bodenstedt then worked as a journalist, translator, poet, professor, and from 1867–69 served as director of the Court Theater at Meiningen. His poem collection, Lieder des Mirza Schaffy (1849–50), was his only successful publication. “In den Prärien” appeared in 1882 in Aus Morgenland und Abendland: Neue Gedichte und Sprüche.

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