Nikolay Karamzin – författare

Pered vami — opisannyj pisatelem i prepodavatelem Aleksandrom Arkhangel''skim odin iz vazhnejshikh epizodov istorii russkoj literatury: skvoznoj tsikl povestej, poem i dazhe odnogo malen''kogo romana o nespravedlivom ustrojstve zhizni. V tsentre syuzhetnogo vnimaniya — dramaticheskaya sud''ba devushki, na khudoj konets — molodogo muzhchiny s govoryashchej familiya Devushkin. Odni avtory vinyat vo vsem nesovershenstvo obshchestva. Drugie — Imperiyu, kotoraya ne ostavlyaet malen''komu cheloveku nikakikh shansov. Maloe budet pogloshcheno bol''shim, slaboe sil''nym. Kak sud''by bol''shinstva geroin'' etogo stikhijno slozhivshegosya tsikla pogloshcheny i razdavleny gerojami, zhenskij mir — muzhskim, lish'' izredka srabatyvaet zakon bozhestvennogo Sluchaya.

In 1789-1790 the writer visited Europe. As a result of it the famous "Letters of a Russian Traveler" appeared, the publications of which in 1791 - 1792 made a famous writer from Karamzin. Philologists think that this very book starts the modern Russian literature.

"A Knight of Our Times" - is a novel published in the three publications of "Vestnik" in 1802-1803. The romantic story of Leon is presented as the events from the real Karamzin`s "friend`s» life. The author created the description of life of the sensitive young man during the illness under the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau`s "Confession" but he did not finish the novel.