Svetlana (ballad)

Svetlana
Karl Bryullov, Svetlana at Fortune-telling
AuthorVasily Zhukovsky
Original titleСветлана
LanguageRussian
GenreBallad
Published1813
PublisherVestnik Evropy

Svetlana is a ballad by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, published in 1813. It is one of Zhukovsky's three adaptations of Gottfried Bürger's ballad Lenore. It is often credited with popularizing the given name Svetlana, which is also the name of the protagonist.