The Arzamas

Arzamas

Arzamas is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Tyosha River , east of Moscow. Population: -History:Arzamas was founded in 1578 by Ivan the Terrible in the lands populated at the time by the Mordvin people...

 Society was a literary society

Literary society

A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. In the modern sense, this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of literature or a specific writer. Modern literary societies typically promote research about their chosen author or genre, publish newsletters, and hold...

 in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 in 1815-1818. The society received its name after a humorous work by a Russia

Russia

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n statesman Dmitry Bludov

Dmitry Bludov

Count Dmitry Nikolayevich Bludov was a Russian imperial official who filled a variety of posts under Nicholas I - Deputy Education Minister , Minister of Justice , Minister of the Interior , Chief of the Second Section...

 called A Vision at the Inn at Arzamas, Published by the Society of Scholars ("Видение в арзамасском трактире, изданное обществом учёных людей"). Among the members of this society were Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century...

, Konstantin Batyushkov

Konstantin Batyushkov

Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov was a Russian poet, essayist and translator of the Romantic era.-Biography:The early years of Konstantin Batyushkov's life are difficult to reconstruct...

, Pyotr Vyazemsky

Pyotr Vyazemsky

Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky or Petr Andreevich Viazemsky was a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry.- Biography :...

, Vasily Pushkin

Vasily Pushkin

Vasiliy Lvovich Pushkin was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin....

 and others. As supporters of the Karamzin reform, the society members argued against conservative ideas of the Lovers of the Russian Word

Lovers of the Russian Word

The Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word was a conservative and proto-Slavophile literary society founded in St. Petersburg in the early nineteenth century....

Society and advocated the rapproachement of literary and conversational languages and new genres in poetry.