Poor Liza

Nikolay Karamzin (1766 – 1826) – is a Russian writer of the epoch of the Sentimentalism, famous historian, and creator of a fundamental multivolume work «History of the Russian State». He was the editor of two influential periodicals of the end of the XVIII – the beginning of the XIX- centuries – the «Moscow Journal» and the «Envoy of Europe». The story «Poor Liza» was written in 1792. This is a typical story of a young girl, tempted and abandoned by a rich noble man − a moral to the young ladies of those times, which is depicted in many works of the world classic authors. Karamzin added the national coloring to the tragedy, put the deepness into the sentimental story, the inconsistency and passion of a Russian person, his desperate desire to throw down a challenge to the paradoxes of life.