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Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin in Germany
The book consists of four studies on the famous Russian writer and historian, who lived from 1766-1826, and his connections with Germany. In 1789 Karamzin did not only visit various German towns and monuments, but also interview philosophers and men of letters like Kant, Nicolai, Herder or Wieland. The episodes from his LETTERS OF A RUSSIAN TRAVELER have been widely dismissed as fictional. However, as this author can show, archival records and even contemporary newspapers prove that Karamzin did not invent anything. On the contrary his epistles turn out to be an invaluable source of knowledge, for instance on the conditions of Russians, temporarily or permanently living at the time in Prussia, in particular Berlin and Potsdam. By a strange twist of history, several of Karamzin's autographs have found their way back to Germany, above all to the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, the very library the young Karamzin had borrowed a volume from more than two centuries before. These papers (aside from an earlier autograph of 1789 in Nurnberg) range from 1806 till 1821 and are commented upon in the last part of the present publication.
Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
The single most important source on the history of Russian conservatism
RUS-NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH KARAM
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Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century
Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous correspondence and published writings a world view that recognized the weaknesses of the Russian Empire and at the same time foresaw the dangers of both radical change and rigid autocracy. Russian conservatism owes much to this man, even though he would have agreed with very few of those who came after him and were called conservative: he supported autocracy, but was committed to enlightenment...
Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century
This monograph focuses on the final third ofNicholas Karamzin'slife, on his career at court (1816-26) and on the cultural heritage he left to the Russian Empire."
Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
The single most important source on the history of Russian conservatism
N. M. Karamzin
Intro; Foreword; Contents; I. Moscow: Apprenticeship; II. Moscow and St. Petersburg; III. Preromantic Developments before Karamzin; IV. Preromantic Developments before Karamzin (Cont.); V. Poetry: The Theory; VI. Poetry: The Practice; VII. Prose: ""Poor Liza"", Language; VIII. Prose: Historical, Moral, and Romantic Tales; IX. Letters of a Russian Traveler; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Three Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century
For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. In this valuable collection, expert translator David Gasperetti presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia. The country's first bestseller, Matvei Komarov's Vanka Kain tells the story of a renowned thief and police spy and is also an excellent historical source on the era's criminal underworld. Mikhail Chulkov's The Comely Cook is a cross between Moll Flanders, with its comic emphasis on a woman of ill-repute who struggles to secure her place in society, and Tristram Shandy, with its parody of the conventions of novel writing. Finally, Nikolai Karamzin's Poor Liza, the story of a young woman who kills herself over a failed love affair, set the standard for writing sentimentalist fiction in Russia. Taken as a whole, these three works outline the beginnings of modern prose fiction in Russia and also illuminate the literary culture that would give rise to the Golden Age of Russian letters in the middle of the next century.
