Rosyjski werter Michała Suszkowa (u źródeł werteryzmu w literaturze Rosyjskiej)
Russian Werter Michal Suszkov (at the source of Verberism in Russian literature)

Summary/Abstract: The epistolary novel of Goethe “The suffering of the young Werther” acquired considerable popularity in Russian literature of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Numerous imitations of this masterpiece are opened by the Russian Werther Michael Sushkov, an autobiographical novel written in 1792 and published in 1801, a few years after the suicide of the seventeen-year-old author. In the present study, a comparative analysis is given of Novel's novel and the story of Sushkov. It is not a slavish imitation of the German script. At some similarity they have their own distinctive features. Russian Werther lives not only with feelings, but with reason. He combines superficial sentimentalism with Voltaireanism, which seems to be a common feature of the Russian noble culture of the late eighteenth century. Therefore, the Russian Werther is its original literary monument.

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