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&ndash;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&ndash;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 
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## Further reading 
* Anderson, Roger&nbsp;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.&nbsp;50, No.&nbsp;4. (Winter, 1991), pp.&nbsp;989–998.
* [Karamzin, N.M.] *Selected Prose of N.M. Karamzin*. Trans. and Intr. by Henry&nbsp;M. Nebel, Jr. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969.
* Nebel, Henry&nbsp;M., Jr. *N.M. Karamzin: A Russian Sentimentalist*. The Hague: Mouton&nbsp;&&nbsp;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)