Алексей Жемчужников

(1821-1908) - Poet, playwright, publicist. The brother of Alexander and Vladimir Zhemchuzhnikov, the cousin of Aleksey Tolstoy Алексей Константинович Толстой, with whom he co-authored the famous satirical image of Kozma Prutkov Козьма Прутков. The poem "Осенние журавли" ("Autumn cranes") (в дальнейшем – «Журавли» или «Здесь, под небом чужим…»)(hereinafter – "Cranes" or "Here, under a strange sky ...") it became a landmark for the Russian song.