| "Poor Liza" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Nikolay Karamzin | |
 Depiction of Poor Liza by Orest Kiprensky, 1827 | |
 Text available at Russian Wikisource | |
| Original title | Бедная Лиза |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre(s) | sentimentalism |
| Publication | |
| Publication date | 1792[1] |
| Published in English | 1803 |
"Poor Liza" (Russian: Бедная Лиза, romanized: Bednaya Liza)[2] is a 1792 short story or sentimental novella[3] by the Russian author Nikolay Karamzin. It is one of Karamzin's best-known short stories in Russia. It is the tale of two lovers that belong to different social classes[4] which in this case is a young nobleman and a poor peasant girl.[5] The story popularized the sentimentalized peasant girl in 19th-century Russia.[5]
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- ^ Black, Joseph Laurence; Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich (1975). Essays on Karamzin: Russian Man-of Letters, Political Thinker, Historian, 1766-1826. Mouton. p. 40. ISBN 978-90-279-3251-8. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ Bendazzi, Giannalberto (23 October 2015). Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-317-51990-4. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ Gogol, Nikolay (1 December 2005). Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-0-14-191002-4. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ a b Stites, Richard (1 October 2008). Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power. Yale University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-300-12818-5. Retrieved 25 June 2021.