Abstract
Victor Tsoffka : Prince B. V. Golitsyn and F. Schiller. Prince B. V. Golitsyn (1769-1813), a dillettante writer who lived in France on the eve of the Revolution, was also one of F. Schiller's first admirers in Russia. During his stay in Paris he sent the German poet a letter and one of his works in German, hoping that it would be published in Schiller's review Rheinische Thalia. It was probably a German translation of an essay by O. Goldsmith. In line with the fashion of the age, Golitsyn was strongly influenced by German culture, and he published in the Mercure de France an article on J. K. Riesbeck, in which he tried to bring German literature to the attention of the French public. He also published in the same periodical several French works, in verse and prose, in the style of Gessner and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Prince Golitsyn, who was later the neighbour of the young Pushkin in the countryside near Moscow, was possibly the model for Lenski, one of the main heroes of Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin, like Golitsyn an admirer of Schiller and German literature.
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