THE PHENOMENON OF BYRONISM IN 19TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MIKHAIL YURYEVICH LERMONTOV'S WORKS)

The paper examines the influence of English Romanticism on the development 
of Russian literature of the 19th century, using the works of George Gordon Byron and 
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov as examples. Special attention is paid to the historical events in Europe, including the consequences of the French Revolution, which became a driving 
force for the emergence of a new literary movement — Romanticism.