Théophile Gautier
Benediktov is considered one of the most prominent Russian translators of the 19th century (of Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Henri Auguste Barbier, Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Adam Mickiewicz, Lord Byron, Shakespeare, among others). His most successful translations were those of Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Victor Hugo, two masters he felt close aesthetic affinity to.