Word: lermontov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief country during the Romantic movement, England produced (always excepting Rousseau) the most tearful sentimentalists like Sterne, who, had Russian imitators, and the most energetic poseurs like Byron, traces of whose stock-in-trade are discoverable in Lermontov and in the great Puslakin. Through the Waverly Novels, Scott gave an impetus to Russian historical fiction which can hardly be exaggerated. "After Byron," says Dr. Simmons, "no figure in English literature caught the popular imagination or won the devotion of Russian writers to the same extent, influences continued to be sure, but they were of a superficial and passing nature. Russia...