MODIFICATION OF ROMANTIC HISTORICAL NOVEL BY I. I. LAZHECHNIKOV "LAST NOVIC"
Romantic historical novel performed the role of a conductor of realism in literature. In the 20–30s of the XIX century the genre of the historical novel and the story come to the fore in the literature of Russia and Western Europe. In the historical novel the first foundations of art historicism are put. The beginning of the historical understanding of the world appeared in I. I. Lazhechnikov during the War of 1812. He writes "Livonian" novel, trying to "draw the correct picture of the epoch". The main idea of the novel is "love to people fame". It's a romantic historical novel with the typical romantic poetics, which true historical epoch of the beginning of the XVII century in Livonia and Russia is shown. Ethno-historical motivation of characters’ behavior, not social and political, is typical for Lazhechnikov unlike the realists. "Historical poetry", according to the writer’s opinion, is the penetration of the moral meaning of history into the strengthening of the Russian state. Lazhechnikov romanticism is a complex art system, which implies a special aesthetics and a special type of historicism.