Nikolay Karamzin

**Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin** (; ) was a Russian historian, romantic writer, poet, and critic. He is important because of his _History of the Russian State_. This was a series of 12 volumes. It was a history of Russia.

#### Fiction

- _Evgenyi i Yuliya_ (**'), English translation: _Evgeniy and Julia_ (1789)
- _Bednaya Liza_ (**'), English translation: _Poor Liza_ (1792)
- _Natalya, boyarskaya doch_ (**'), English translation: _Natalya the Boyar's Daughter_ (1792)
- _Prekrasnaia tsarevna i schastlivyi karla_ (**'), English translation: _The Beautiful Princess and the Happy Dwarf_ (1792)
- _Ostrov Borngolm_ (**'), English translation: _Island of Bornholm_ (1793)
- _Afinskaya zhizn_ (**'), English translation: _Athenian Life_ (1794)
- _Melodor k Filaletu_ (**'), English translation: _Melodor to Filalet_ (1794; paired with a sequel, _Filalet to Melodor_)
- _Yuliya_ (**'), English translation: _Julia_ (1796)
- _Marfa-posadnitsa_ (**'), English translation: _Martha the Mayoress_ (1802)
- _Moya ispoved_ (**'), English translation: _My Confession_ (1802)
- _Chuvstvitelnyi i kholodnyi_ (**'), English translation: _The Sensitive and the Cold_ (1803)
- _Rytsar nashego vremeni_ (**'), English translation: _A Knight of Our Times_ (1803)

#### Non-fiction

- _Pisma russkogo puteshestvennika_ (**'), English translation: _Letters of a Russian Traveler_ (1791–92)
- _Zapiska o drevney i novoy Rossii_ (**'), English translation: _Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia_ (1811)
- _Istoriya gosudarstva Rossiyskogo_ (**'), English translation: _History of the Russian State_ (1816–26)

### Poetry

- _Poetry_ (**'), 1787
- _Darovaniya_ (**'), English translation: _Gifts_ (1796)
- _Solovey_ (**'), English translation: _Nightingale_ (1796)
- _Protey, ili Nesoglasiya stikhotvortsa_ (**'), English translation: _Proteus, or Inconsistencies of a Poet_ (1798)
- _Ego imperatorskomu velichestvu Alexandru I, samoderzhtsu vserossiyskomu, na vosshestvie ego na prestol_ (**', English translation: _To His Imperial Highness Alexander I, All-Russian Autocrat, on the Occasion of His Rise to the Throne_ (1801)
- _Gimn gluptsam_ (**'), English translation: _Hymn to the Fools_ (1802)
- _K Emilii_ (**'), English translation: _To Emilie_ (1802)
- _K dobrodeteli_ (**'), English translation: _To Virtue_ (1802)
- _Osvobozhdenie Evropy i slava Alexandra I_ (**'), English translation: _The Freeing of Europe and the Glory of Alexander I_ (1814)

## Further reading

- Anderson, Roger B. _N.M. Karamzin's Prose: The Teller and the Tale_. Houston: Cordovan Press, 1974.
- Black, J.L. _Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought_. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975 (hardcover, ).
- Cross, A.G. _N.M. Karamzin: A Study of His Literary Career, 1783–1803_. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971 ().
- _Essays on Karamzin: Russian Man-of-Letters, Political Thinker, Historian, 1766–1826 (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings; 309)_. Edited by J.L. Black. The Hague; Paris: Mouton, 1975.
- Grudzinska Gross, Irena. "The Tangled Tradition: Custine, Herberstein, Karamzin, and the Critique of Russia", _Slavic Review_, Vol. 50, No. 4. (Winter, 1991), pp. 989–998.
- [Karamzin, N.M.] _Selected Prose of N.M. Karamzin_. Trans. and Intr. by Henry M. Nebel, Jr. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969.
- Nebel, Henry M., Jr. _N.M. Karamzin: A Russian Sentimentalist_. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1967.
- Pipes, Richard. _Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia: A Translation and Analysis (Russian Research Center Studies; 33)_. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959.
- Fraanje, Maarten. _Nikolai Karamzin and Christian Heinrich Spiess: "Poor Liza" in the Context of the Eighteenth-Century German Suicide Story_. Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter Volume 27 (1999).

## Other websites

- Karamzin's History of the Russian State
- Karamzin's Aglaia I-II, 2nd edition (1796)
- Karamzin. Poem
- English translations of 4 epigrams, "Inscriptions on a Statue of Cupid"

- Martha the Mayoress (English translation)

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Nikolay Karamzin
- **image**: Karamzin by Tropinin (1818, Tretyakov gallery).jpg
- **caption**: Portrait of Karamzin by Vasily Tropinin, 1818.
- **birth place**: Maynsky District, Znamenskoye, Simbirsk Uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire
- **death date**: (aged 59)
- **death place**: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
- **occupation**: Writer, historian, poet
- **period**: 1781–1826
- **movement**: Sentimentalism (literature), Sentimentalism
- **notableworks**: _Poor Liza_