In this article reveals the facts of the history of Russian translational perception of F. Shiller’s poem “Land Division” («Die Teilung der Erde») from 1805 to 2008. Nine Russian translations from different periods of Russian literature are successively compared to the original; literary traditions of the epoch of the translation and the stages of the Russian translation theory are disclosed. Particular attention is dedicated to the translation made by E.P. Lyutsenko as to the first Russian translator of this poem.
Such epic experiments of Ye. P. Lyutsenko as «Cheslav», «Burivoy and Ylmila» are analyzed in the article; their sources are established, they are «The Russian Primary Chronicle», «Joachim’s Chronicle»; the peculiarity of the pre-Romantic historicism is revealed.
