Abstract
Toward the end of the 18th century the Russian writer Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin introduced the artistic movement of sentimentalism and the literary genre of psychological short story. These literary innovations demanded the creation of new artistic formulas capable of expressing the whole complexity of the inner world of a literary hero. Karamzin found these necessary formulas and means in the exalted eloquence and lyricism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s New Heloise. Rousseau’s masterpiece became for Karamzine an important example of the new psychological and sentimental literary aesthetic. However, Karamzine did not remain a simple imitator. In his literary works, he created a real « Russian short story », full of national originality as well as his own innovative methods and artistic individuality. Karamzin’s literary creations profoundly influenced Pushkin and many other great Russian writers of the 19th century.
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