Наталья, боярская дочь

The novella about the boyar`s daughter Natasha was published in one year with "Poor Liza" (1792). The epoch of Enlightenment with its freethinking was going to break the patriarchal traditions of the Russian society. The books about the worthy unworthy behaviors of the young ladies were very popular. To be virgin before marriage, to avoid the fatal way of the libertine outcast rejected by the soci...