Russian Nights (Russian: Русские ночи / Russkie nochi) is an 1844 collection of philosophical essays and novellas by Vladimir Odoyevsky. The work is a sprawling Gothic 'frame-novel', built on romantic principles inspired by Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis, 1772-1801) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), loosely modelled on the Noctes Atticae, and which like E.T.A. Hoffmann mixes genres and styles.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ Neil Cornwell - Reference Guide to Russian Literature 2013 - 1134260776 p 590 Russkie nochi Frame-tale novel, 1844 Russian Nights may perhaps best be described as a "philosophical frame-tale"; it has sometimes been ...
  2. ^ The Encyclopedia of the Gothic, 2 Volume Set William Hughes, David Punter, Andrew Smith - 2015 1119064600 - Page 482 A minor revival of interest occurred in the early twentieth century (when Russian Nights was reprinted and a huge ... The two that he did complete, the cycle Variegated Tales (1833) and the philosophical frame-tale novel Russian Nights (1844) ...
  3. ^ Donna Tussing Orwin Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy 0804757038 - 2007 Russian Nights is Odoevsky's grand attempt at a Russian romantic novel, and it is even possible that Dostoevsky had it