Svetlana is a ballad by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, published in 1813. It is one of Zhukovsky's three adaptations of Gottfried Bürger's ballad Lenore. It is often credited with popularizing the

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art.