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.

 Important works 

Prose

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)

 References 

 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)

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