About the book: year / "Darling" was an extraordinary success in its time, perhaps even higher than Sumarokov's tragedies, Fonvizin's comedies, odes Derzhavin, “Rossiada” by Kheraskov. Bogdanovich's shepherd's pipe enchanted the ears of his contemporaries more powerfully than the trumpets and kettledrums of epic poems and solemn odes; his myrtle wreath was more seductive than the laurel wreaths of our Homers and Pindars of that time. Before the publication of “Ruslan and Lyudmila,” our literature does not represent anything similar to such a brilliant triumph…»