Burned Moscow. Danilevsky G.

Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (1829-1890) - writer, publicist, translator - for a long time sought his way in literature: he debuted as a poet, processed Ukrainian tales in a poetic form, tried himself in dramaturgy, worked on translations of Byron, Schiller, Longfello, Longfello, Longfello, Longfello, Novalis, Mitskevich and Shakespeare. In the 1860s, Danilevsky began to write novels from the history of Russia and Ukraine of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The novel “Buried Moscow” (1886) on the topic of the Patriotic War of 1812 is associated with the epic novel by L. Tolstoy “War and Peace”, however, according to an anonymous critic of that time, the author managed to illuminate the “unnecessary thick corner of the then era”. The protagonist V. A. Perovsky was written off from a real person, a participant in the events of 1812, who told about his military fate in “Notes”. Danilevsky supplemented his image, having spent a romantic line in the narrative, closely intertwined with the military. Being under the charm of Tolstoy’s creation, the writer went to Yasnaya Polyana (1885) to show him his work, and Tolstoy, according to Danilevsky himself, ardently recommended to print the novel.