 Katenin's principal contention was that poetry should be "national", and it was this which led him away from the Karamzinians and Zhukovskyites.Disappointed by Zhukovsky's mellifluent translation of Bürger's "Lenore", Katenin brought out his own version of the ballad, whose title was Russified as "Olga" (1816).In this poem he tried to attain nationality by the use of aggressive (and at that time objectionable) realism in diction and detail.