"The Venetian Nun" by Kheraskov and the beginning of sentimentalism.
There are many versions about when the first works of Russian sentimentalism were written, which authors and in what period of their work can be called sentimentalists, what influenced them, what ideas they started from, and finally, what sentimentalism is as a literary phenomenon. So, if we try to resolve the issue of representatives of sentimentalism, then, according to N.I. Mordovchenko, “Russian sentimentalism... received its brightest embodiment in Radishchev” [ N.I. Mordovchenko.