The article deals with the traditions’s revealing and understanding of Thomas Moore’s eastern poem «Lalla Rookh» in the works of V.A. Zhukovsky. The analysis of the works of the Russian poet, which reflected the events of the Berlin theatrical festival in 1821 («Lalla Rook», «The phenomenon of poetry in the form of Lalla Rook») is done in this article. The facts and circumstances that helped Thomas Moore and V.A. Zhukovsky’s indirect acquaintance are distinguished. Theoretically, the article is based on a historical and literary approach to the subject of study, combined with a comparative historical and formal methods of analyzing literary works. In the field of methodology of historical and literary knowledge, the works of Alexander N. Ve...