 A new translation of Burns, begun in 1924 by Samuil Marshak, proved enormously popular selling over 600,000 copies.Lord Byron was a major influence on almost all Russian poets of the Golden Era, including Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Baratynsky, Delvig and, especially, Lermontov.Writers such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac were widely influential.