Abstract: This paper discusses the concept of romanticism in Russian literature and how it is defined by a whole multitude of theorists. It also discusses how the concept of romanticism is reflected in the understanding of Pushkin himself. In this article an attempt is made to answer the question: how does Pushkin's romanticism get manifested or in other words, what are the mediators of Pushkin's romanticism. In short, forms of Pushkin's romanticism could include: time and space, i.e. memory, recollections and nostalgia, natural water spaces, celestial phenomena, manifestations of fire and fieriness, natural cataclysms, free-wheeling gypsy mode of life versus petty philistinism, love-lornness, pangs of loneliness, tribulations and tumultuousness of inner world of man, rebelliousness of man at odds with existing social order, craving for unfettered freedom, the cult of individuality, fantasization, lack of rationalization and cold-blooded calculation, flight from routine and mundane life to unknown horizons – soaring into skies, to high mountain peaks, plunging into open seas and forests . . . – and finally, spontaneity of actions, particularly the rebellious ones are some of the significant mediators in Pushkin's romanticism. By way of an example Pushkin’s romantic long poem “Gypsies” has been analyzed at some length.

Keywords: A.S. Pushkin, Romanticism, Byron, mediator.