Opposition of Christianity and napoleonism in Russian literature of 1830-1850s and some methodological problems of its research (V.A. Zhukovsky, G.S. Batenkov, N.V. Gogol)

The article gives a criticism of the Napoleonic myth in the poetry of VA Zhukovsky. Rejecting the demonism of Napoleon, the poet condemned his individualism, unbelief, immorality. This criticism is based on th