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The question of literary influences on Karavelov is complex and interesting. It is inextricably linked with the entire complex of problems of the writer's creative path, of the features, place and significance of his literary work. It cannot be properly understood if we do not approach it concretely and historically. The concretely and historically approach implies a study not only of the historical moment, but also of the specific features of national development, of the national cultural process. As a writer, L. Karavelov learned from the work of strictly defined authors: primarily from revolutionary-democratic Russian and Ukrainian literature and from Gogol's work. The revolutionary-democratic direction influenced him with two of its main tendencies, manifested, on the one hand, in the works of writers who developed the journalistic genre in fiction, such as Chernyshevsky and Herzen, and on the other hand, in works that are distinguished by a peculiar national, even populist pathos. The most significant representative of the latter trend is the Ukrainian writer M. Vovchok. The influence of M. Vovchok and T. Shevchenko on Karavelov's work is particularly strong, undeniable. The task of the present work is to raise and clarify some questions about the development of the fiction writer Karavelov, in connection with the influence of the Ukrainian writer M. Vovchok, about the common trends in their work and about the differences between them.