The age of Russian Romanticism (1810s-40s) viewed in its contemporary European context. Literary works by Zhukovsky, Batiushkov, Pushkin, Iazykov, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Odoevsky, Gogol; popular literature of the time (Tumansky, Benediktov, and others); major events in romantic literary criticism and philosophy (Kireevsky, Belinsky, Chaadaev); and the development of romantic cultural and personal mythology.