text:  Of the other two names we have mentioned as entitled to share the reverence due from every Russian to the fathers of his country's letters it will be sufficient to remark that Soumarokoff was the first to introduce tragedy and opera and Kheraskoff the author of two epic poems which we omit to particularize as not coming within our present scope wrote a work entitled "Cadmus and Harmonia " which may be considered as the first romance