Nikolay Karamzin

In this article, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Karamzin.

Nikolay Karamzin
Portrait of Karamzin by Vasily Tropinin, 1818.
Native name	Николай Карамзин
Born	12 December [O.S. 1 December] 1766 Znamenskoye, Simbirsk Uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1826 (aged 59) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation	Writer, historian, poet
Period	1781–1826
Literary movement	Sentimentalism
Notable works	Poor Liza ''History of the Russian State''

Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Карамзи́н; 12 December [O.S. 1 December] 1766 – 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1826) 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 (Russian: Евгений и Юлия), English translation: Evgeniy and Julia (1789)
• Bednaya Liza (Russian: Бедная Лиза), English translation: Poor Liza (1792)
• Natalya, boyarskaya doch (Russian: Наталья, боярская дочь), English translation: Natalya the Boyar's Daughter (1792)
• Prekrasnaia tsarevna i schastlivyi karla (Russian: Прекрасная царевна и счастливый карла), English translation: The Beautiful Princess and the Happy Dwarf (1792)
• Ostrov Borngolm (Russian: Остров Борнгольм), English translation: Island of Bornholm (1793)
• Afinskaya zhizn (Russian: Афинская жизнь), English translation: Athenian Life (1794)
• Melodor k Filaletu (Russian: Мелодор к Филалету), English translation: Melodor to Filalet (1794; paired with a sequel, Filalet to Melodor)
• Yuliya (Russian: Юлия), English translation: Julia (1796)
• Marfa-posadnitsa (Russian: Марфа-посадница), English translation: Martha the Mayoress (1802)
• Moya ispoved (Russian: Моя исповедь), English translation: My Confession (1802)
• Chuvstvitelnyi i kholodnyi (Russian: Чувствительный и холодный), English translation: The Sensitive and the Cold (1803)
• Rytsar nashego vremeni (Russian: Рыцарь нашего времени), English translation: A Knight of Our Times (1803)

Non-fiction

• Pisma russkogo puteshestvennika (Russian: Письма русского путешественника), English translation: Letters of a Russian Traveler (1791–92)
• Zapiska o drevney i novoy Rossii (Russian: Записка о древней и новой России), English translation: Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia (1811)
• Istoriya gosudarstva Rossiyskogo (Russian: История государства Российского), English translation: History of the Russian State (1816–26)

Poetry

• Poetry (Russian: Поэзия), 1787
• Darovaniya (Russian: Дарования), English translation: Gifts (1796)
• Solovey (Russian: Соловей), English translation: Nightingale (1796)
• Protey, ili Nesoglasiya stikhotvortsa (Russian: Протей, или Несогласия стихотворца), English translation: Proteus, or Inconsistencies of a Poet (1798)
• Ego imperatorskomu velichestvu Alexandru I, samoderzhtsu vserossiyskomu, na vosshestvie ego na prestol (Russian: Его императорскому величеству Александру I, самодержцу всероссийскому, на восшествие его на престол, English translation: To His Imperial Highness Alexander I, All-Russian Autocrat, on the Occasion of His Rise to the Throne (1801)
• Gimn gluptsam (Russian: Гимн глупцам), English translation: Hymn to the Fools (1802)
• K Emilii (Russian: К Эмилии), English translation: To Emilie (1802)
• K dobrodeteli (Russian: К добродетели), English translation: To Virtue (1802)
• Osvobozhdenie Evropy i slava Alexandra I (Russian: Освобождение Европы и слава Александра I), English translation: The Freeing of Europe and the Glory of Alexander I (1814)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 676.

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, ISBN 0-8020-5335-1).
• Cross, A.G. N.M. Karamzin: A Study of His Literary Career, 1783–1803. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971 (ISBN 0-8093-0452-X).
• 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

• (in Russian) Karamzin's History of the Russian State Archived 27 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Russian) Karamzin's Aglaia I-II, 2nd edition (1796)
• (in Russian) Karamzin. Poem
• English translations of 4 epigrams, "Inscriptions on a Statue of Cupid"