Fedot Kuzmicev, un servo della gleba nella campagna contro Napoleone. Guerra e letteratura popolare in Russia ai tempi di Gogol'

The author analyzes the tales on 1812 campaign against Napoleon written by an almost unknown Russian popular writer, Fedot Kuzmicev. Kuzmicev took part to the campaign against Napoleon as a serf of Countess Golicyna. After he came back from France, he wrote several long tales (fictional works with autobiographical elements)which enjoyed success among the Russian popular readers in 30's and 40's of the Nineteenth Century.