Serapion Brothers
Antony Pogorelsky's set of stories "Dvoinik" (The Double, or My Evenings in Little Russia) (1828) was closely related to the German fantastic tradition ("Serapion Brothers" by Hoffman) and anticipated the famous "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" by Nikolai Gogol and "Russian Nights" by Vladimir Odoevsky. In 1829 Pogorelsky published the book that brought him real fame: it was the fairy tale "Black Hen, or Living Underground" written for his nephew, the first book about childhood in Russian literature. His novel "Monastyrka", a “moral-descriptive novel” combining both sentimental and romantic elements was very well accepted by public and critics.