WHY DIDN'T INSAROV BECOME THE LIBERATOR OF BULGARIA?
The article addresses the ambivalence of Insarov’s image, which unites traits of Hamlet and Don Quixote. I.S. Turgenev polemized with Romanticism and Slavophilism combining the image of Insarov as a character with the idea of him created by other heroes of the novel. The man-made mask of the Hero was needed by the Russians themselves to inspire the feat that had long been determined.