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“German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow”
Contributions included creating literature with ideological content (censorship helped), emancipated the followers and students from oversimplified view of men and things as good or bad and predictable in terms of clear and mechanical causal chains. Turgenev stands out in this essay as a balanced writer and thinker

Group of essays “A Remarkable Decade” referencing the period circa 1838-1848, after the essay with the same name by a lit historian P. Annenkov. “The Birth of the Russian Inteligentsia” is the first essay giving an interesting though brief context of the people and historical and cultural background. Point of interest - Berlin’s view of Russian vs French attitude to literature.