Wczesna twórczość księcia Piotra Andriejewicza Wiaziemskiego a Oświecenie

Abstract

The article points to the work of Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky (1792–1878) in the 10th and 30th years of the 19th century, which was strongly infuenced by the Enlightenment. The early writer’s interest in the literature of the Enlightenment and the reading of works from the rich library of his father Andrey Ivanovich Vyazemsky, a devotee of the eighteenth‑century French Enlightenment literature, the life experience and the new ideas had a noticable impact on Pyotr Wyazemsky’s strong foundation of the ideologies of the Age of Enlightenment. Prince Wyazemsky left a clear mark in the compilation of his native literary historiography of the 10th and 30th years of the 19th century. Numerous articles about prominent representatives of the 18th century literary process allow to see him as a columnist of the Russian literature history. It was the Age of the Enlightenment did he perceive as the most important and effective measure to improve the social and cultural Russia’s failure.