High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russian science fiction arguably had its Golden age in the 1960s, when also majority of English translations were made. Though secular literature was forming gradually in Russia since XVII century, it was not until the late XVIII century that European rhetoric genres were transplanted to native ground, with narrative fiction techniques open to complex interaction with new scientific and social ideas. The first work which is indisputably proto science fiction is Fedor Dmitriev-Mamonov's A Philosopher Nobleman («Dvoryanin-filosof», 1769). It is a voltairean conte philosophique influenced by Micromegas. The first generic utopia is a short prose piece by Alexander Sumarokov, "A Dream of Happy Society" (1759). Two early examples of utopias in form of imaginary voyage are Vasily Levshin's Newest Voyage (1784, which is also the first Russian "flight" to the Moon) and Mikhail Shcherbatov's Journey to the Land of Ophir (written the same year but published in 1896).

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