Nikolay Karamzin

Nikolay Karamzin (1766-1826) was born into a noble family of the Simbirsk governorate. In Moscow, he entered the circle of the publisher Nikolay Novikov and the Freemasons. From 1789 to 1790 he travelled through Europe, visited Kant in Königsberg and saw the early Revolution in Paris. On his return, he founded a journal in 1791 in which he wrote in a language free of Slavonic archaisms. Appointed historiographer of the empire by Alexander I in 1803, he devoted the rest of his life to a history of the Russian state in twelve volumes. He died in Saint Petersburg.

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