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In 1830 Lermontov wrote in his notebook: ‘Our literature is so poor that I can’t borrow anything from it’. The following year, Pushkin ‘descended to humble prose’, and published The Tales of Belkin (Povesti Belkina).
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See V. G. Belinsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1953–9; hereafter PSS)I, pp. 139–40.
Boris Tomashevsky, ‘Proza Lermontova i zapadno-evropeiskaia literaturnaia traditsiia’, Literaturnoe nasledstvo XLIII—XLIV (Moscow, 1941) pp. 469–516.
V. Turbin, Pushkin,Lermontov,Gogol:ob izuchenii literaturnykh zhanrov (Moscow, 1978).
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Meyer, P. (1992). Lermontov’s Reading of Pushkin: The Tales of Belkin and A Hero of Our Time. In: Offord, D. (eds) The Golden Age of Russian Literature and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22310-7_5
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