Author: Николай Михайлович Карамзин
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ISBN: 9780729408110
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Letters of a Russian traveller (1797) are the most important expression of Enlightenment thought from the pen of a Russian writer. In 1789 Nikolai Karamzin (1765-1826), a leading historian and author of sentimental fiction, embarked on an unprecedented intellectual Grand Tour. His itinerary, which took him from St Petersburg through Germany to Revolutionary France and finally to England, served as the basis for this semi-fictional narrative. The narrator visits among others Kant, Herder and Wieland, makes pilgrimage to the resting places of Voltaire and Rousseau, and observes both the revolutionary Assemblée and the English Parliament at first hand. The resulting work is one in which fiction, philosophy, literary and art criticism, historical and biographical writing coalesce, producing nothing less than a wholesale anthropology and evaluation of the Enlightenment from the unfamiliar perspective of a Russian intellectual writing after the outbreak of the French Revolution. This is the first ever complete translation of Karamzin's work into English. The introduction and concluding study explore the intersection of Russian and European intellectual and literary movements, and illuminate questions about travel literature; history of the book and the growth of readership; the self as a philosophical subject; the growth of perceptions of the public sphere; the pre-Romantic fascination with funerary monuments and theories of sociability. This book is aimed at both Russian specialists and Enlightenment scholars who do not read Russian.
Author: N. M. Karamzin
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789125049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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During 1789-90, Nicholai Mikhailovich Karamzin, a young poet and short-story writer, toured Western Europe. On his return, he distilled his impressions in the form of travel letters. Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1791-1801, in which Karamzin’s impressions are woven into a wealth of information about Western European society and culture that he derived from wide reading, became a favorite of readers and was widely imitated. The most influential prose stylist of the eighteenth century, Karamzin shaped the development of the Russian literary language, introducing many Gallicisms to supplant Slavonic-derived words and idioms and breaking down the classicist canons of isolated language styles.
Author: Николай Михайлович Карамзин
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Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Author: N. M. Karamzin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258030544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: Николай Михайлович Карамзин
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0837187257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Nikolaj Mihajlovič Karamzin
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Languages : en
Pages : 351
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Author: Joel L. Black
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311088738X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Author: Nikolaj Mihajlovič Karamzin
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Nikolaj Mihajlovǐc Karamzin
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Languages : en
Pages : 351
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Author: Gerda Panofsky-Soergel
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447061186
Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The book consists of four studies on the famous Russian writer and historian, who lived from 1766-1826, and his connections with Germany. In 1789 Karamzin did not only visit various German towns and monuments, but also interview philosophers and men of letters like Kant, Nicolai, Herder or Wieland. The episodes from his LETTERS OF A RUSSIAN TRAVELER have been widely dismissed as fictional. However, as this author can show, archival records and even contemporary newspapers prove that Karamzin did not invent anything. On the contrary his epistles turn out to be an invaluable source of knowledge, for instance on the conditions of Russians, temporarily or permanently living at the time in Prussia, in particular Berlin and Potsdam. By a strange twist of history, several of Karamzin's autographs have found their way back to Germany, above all to the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, the very library the young Karamzin had borrowed a volume from more than two centuries before. These papers (aside from an earlier autograph of 1789 in Nurnberg) range from 1806 till 1821 and are commented upon in the last part of the present publication.
