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The history of art knows the resurrection of unknown greats from the tomb of oblivion: Bach, Hölderlin, Stendhal... But it also knows the vanished stars that once shone in the cultural firmament. One of the favorite authors of our childhood is today almost forgotten, abandoned, misunderstood. We can hardly imagine our teenage library without "Ivanhoe", "Quentin Durward" and "The Bride of Lammermoor", but today's teenagers can. It is hard to believe that today's reader prefers a history textbook to the novels of Walter Scott, but it is a fact. And it is completely incomprehensible to the mind how the idol of Belinsky, the favorite of Pushkin and Chernyshevsky, of V. Hugo and Karl Marx has become almost persona non grata for modern literary scholarship. But that is also the case. And, alas, nowadays the fame of W. Scott is spread more by Vincenzo Bellini's "Puritans" and Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" than by libraries and printing houses. If by chance his name is mentioned as a classic of the historical novel, then this will be a tribute of respect, a formula, edifying advice. And literary scholarship has its own patterns, permanent positions. So who says that the historical novel is an inferior genre? It was Walter Scott, after all, he raised it to the level of the greatest works of his era. Who does not know the novels of W. Scott? Learn from Scott! More Scott!