To the question of the polemic between A.S. Griboedov and N.I. Gnedich

The article subject is known polemic of 1816 about transfer of a ballad «Lenora» («Olga») of Burger by Kathenin, before the translated V.A. Zhukovsky («Lyudmila»). Contrary to J.N. Tynjanov, who has included this polemic in an overall picture of struggle «younger arhaists» with a Karamzin direction in the literature, close to a circle of «Conversation» of Gnedich unexpectedly acts here against «архаиста» as Katenina in protection»арзамасца» Zhukovsky. In article the originality of a literary-aesthetic position of Gnedicha which explain its participation in this to «fourfold duel», and the reasons of its defeat in opposition with the future author» the Grief from mind «is shown.