 This style facilitated Lomonosov's grandiose, high minded writing and use of both vernacular and Church-Slavonic.The influence of Peter I and debates over the function and form of literature as it related to the Russian language in the first half of the 18th century set a stylistic precedent for the writers during the reign of Catherine the Great in the second half of the century.However, the themes and scopes of the works these writers produced were often more poignant, political and controversial.