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Russian Gothic wasn't, until recently, viewed as a critical label by Russian critics.

If used, the word „ gothic “ was used to describe ( mostly early ) works of F. M. Dostoevsky.

The most critics simply used the tags such as „ romanticism “ and „ fantastique “.

Even in relatively new story collection translated as Russian 19th Century Gothic Tales ( from 1984 ), the editor used the name „ Фантастический мир русской романтической повести “ ( The Fantastic World of Russian Romanticism Short Story / Novella ).

However, since the mid-1980s, the Russian gothic fiction was discussed in a books like „ The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature “, „ European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 “ and „ The Russian Gothic novel and its British antecedents “.