About the book: year / Turgenev's review of the translation of "William Tell" contains judgments about the "German spirit" and about Schiller's work as a reflection, characteristic of democratic criticism of the early 1840s German national consciousness. “William Tell,” according to Turgenev, “is not a drama, but a dramatic performance—the dramatic element is precisely what is lacking in the Germans.” This is very close to the words of Belinsky in the article “Russian Theater in St. Petersburg”: “... the Germans have neither drama nor romance... In this case, only Schiller should be excluded…»