Knowra Russian Romanticism Russian Romanticism A movement in Russian literature that emphasized emotion, individual freedom, nature, and exceptional figures. It reshaped poetry and prose in the early nineteenth century.
Romanticism : An artistic and intellectual movement that privileged emotion, imagination, nature, and individual experience. Russian writers adapted this broader movement to local literary traditions and political conditions.
Vasily Zhukovsky : A Russian poet and translator whose work helped introduce Romantic forms and sensibilities into Russian literature. His translations and lyrical poetry established an early Russian Romantic idiom.
Konstantin Batyushkov : A Russian poet whose polished lyrics helped prepare the language and forms used by later Romantic poets. His lyrical craft influenced the poetic culture from which Russian Romanticism emerged.
Russian realism : A nineteenth-century literary mode that depicts social life and character through detailed, grounded representation. Its rise shifted attention from exceptional heroes and idealized landscapes to ordinary social conditions.
Sentimentalism : A literary movement that foregrounded sensibility, sympathy, and emotional response. Its emphasis on feeling prepared Russian prose for Romantic inwardness.
Alexander Pushkin : A Russian poet and prose writer whose work shaped modern Russian literary language. His poems and verse narratives became central expressions of Russian Romanticism.
Kondraty Ryleyev : A Russian poet and Decembrist whose historical poems connected literature with civic resistance. His writing joined Romantic historical imagination to opposition against autocracy.
Russian sentimentalism : An eighteenth-century Russian literary movement centered on sensibility, moral feeling, and sympathetic characters. It shares Romanticism’s interest in emotion but generally lacks its rebellious individual and sublime scale.
Byronic hero : A proud, alienated, and rebellious literary protagonist marked by intense passions and a troubled past. This figure became a model for Russian Romantic characters confronting society.
Mikhail Lermontov : A Russian poet, novelist, and playwright known for works of rebellion, alienation, and tragic individualism. His poetry and fiction gave the exceptional, isolated hero a defining Russian form.
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