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Russian school education emphasizes the uniqueness of Russian literature and Russian thought. However, modern humanities, such as linguistics and socio-political textual studies, make it possible to prove that Russian classical literature is closely related to English literature and largely borrows its features. The "Golden age" of Russian literature had a number of reasons and prerequisites. Russian literature developed, not only improving the ways of displaying social and spiritual reality, or, as the latter is popularly called, the "Russian soul", but also incorporating many European cultural trends. English romanticism had a special influence, which determined the form and genre diversity of Russian literature of the XVIII - early XIX centuries. Russian literature, which is undergoing its development at the turn of the century, was influenced by the English genre and style, which, in fact, determined the form and direction of development of Russian literature for future centuries.