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29-627: The magazine (named for an earlier publication edited by Nikolay Karamzin ) was founded by Mikhail Matveevich Stasyulevich , a former professor of history, who remained the publisher-editor until 1909; its editorial office "was located in Stasyulevich's flat at 20 Galernaya Street and was one of the centres of St. Petersburg's cultural and political life (the journal's major contributors as well as their friends and associates used to get together on Wednesdays)." The first issue appeared in March 1866; for

58-476: A collection of pieces from the works of the most celebrated authors ancient and modern, translated into Russian. Many of his lighter productions were subsequently printed by him in a volume entitled My Trifles . Admired by Alexander Pushkin and Vladimir Nabokov , the style of his writings is elegant and flowing, modelled on the easy sentences of the French prose writers rather than the long periodical paragraphs of

87-468: A frequent contributor on economic and political topics, wrote a regular "Foreign Survey" which he used "to sketch the outlines of an ideal relationship between liberals and socialists in Russia’s not-too-distant parliamentary future, which involved one group supplementing its program with demands for social reforms and the other abandoning its calls for revolution." In the 1880s, it repudiated state socialism "as

116-574: A long-time officer, was granted lands and a title for his service during the Polish–Russian War . His two sons founded two family branches: one in Kostroma and one in Simbirsk which Ekaterina Karamzina belonged to. Her father Peter Pazukhin also made a brilliant military career and went from Praporshchik to Colonel ; he had been serving in the Simbirsk infantry regiment since 1733. As far as

145-496: A matter of principle, while continuing to build on the arguments in favor of state interference, which it saw as guaranteeing the people’s welfare"; it also "rejected both the absolutization of the right to private ownership of land and the idea that the land should be nationalized." Following the 1905 Russian Revolution , many of its members joined the Constitutional Democratic Party , which separated

174-460: A miscellany in two volumes entitled Aglaia , in which appeared, among other stories, " The Island of Bornholm " and Ilya Muromets , the former being one of the first Russian Gothic stories and the latter, a story based on the adventures of the well-known hero of many a Russian legend . From 1797 to 1799, he issued another miscellany or poetical almanac, The Aonides , in conjunction with Derzhavin and Dmitriev . In 1798 he compiled The Pantheon ,

203-563: The Moscow Journal , which he edited, but were later collected and issued in six volumes (1797–1801). In the same periodical, Karamzin also published translations from French and some original stories, including Poor Liza and Natalia the Boyar's Daughter (both 1792). These stories introduced Russian readers to sentimentalism , and Karamzin was hailed as "a Russian Sterne". In 1794, Karamzin abandoned his literary journal and published

232-683: The USSR as part of the Russian Historians stamp series, face value of 10 Russian kopeks , and in 2016 as part of the Outstanding Russian historians stamp series, face value of 25 Russian rubles . [REDACTED] Category Maynsky District Maynsky District ( Russian : Ма́йнский райо́н ) is an administrative and municipal district ( raion ), one of the twenty-one in Ulyanovsk Oblast , Russia . It

261-468: The 1860s, publishing frequent articles on foreign countries and on Russian history that served to promote its own views on contemporary society and politics. It "placed its dark red monthly booklet, 'like a little brick, on the slowly and arduously erected structure of social rights and consciousness.'" In the political climate of 1860s Russia, especially following the January Uprising of 1863,

290-826: The Russian State , a 12-volume national history. Karamzin was born in the small village of Mikhailovka (modern-day Karamzinka village of Maynsky District , Ulyanovsk Oblast , Russia ) near Simbirsk in the Znamenskoye family estate. Another version exists that he was born in 1765 in the Mikhailovka village of the Orenburg Governorate (modern-day Preobrazhenka village of the Orenburg Oblast , Russia) where his father served, and in recent years Orenburg historians have been actively disputing

319-537: The Russian State . In order to accomplish the task, he secluded himself for two years at Simbirsk . When Emperor Alexander learned the cause of his retirement, Karamzin was invited to Tver , where he read to the emperor the first eight volumes of his history. He was a strong supporter of the anti-Polish policies of the Russian Empire, and expressed hope that "there would be no Poland under any shape or name". In 1816, he removed to St Petersburg, where he spent

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348-481: The ancient Aksakov dynasty related to Sergey Aksakov . According to Nikolay Karamzin, his surname derived from Kara- mirza , a baptized Tatar and his earliest-known ancestor who arrived to Moscow to serve under Russian rule. No records of him were left. The first documented Karamzin lived as early as 1534. His mother Ekaterina Petrovna Karamzina (née Pazukhina) also came from a Russian noble family of moderate income founded in 1620 when Ivan Demidovich Pazukhin,

377-479: The appearance of his work, little had been done in this direction in Russia. The preceding attempt of Vasily Tatishchev was merely a rough sketch, inelegant in style, and without the true spirit of criticism. Karamzin was most industrious in accumulating materials, and the notes to his volumes are mines of interesting information. Perhaps Karamzin may justly be criticized for the false gloss and romantic air thrown over

406-494: The early Russian annals; in this respect his work is reminiscent of that of Sir Walter Scott , whose writings were at that time creating a great sensation throughout Europe and probably influenced Karamzin. Karamzin wrote openly as the panegyrist of the autocracy; indeed, his work has been styled the Epic of Despotism and considered Ivan III as the architect of Russian greatness, a glory that he had earlier (perhaps while more under

435-534: The editors of Vestnik Evropy found it necessary both politically (to avoid censorship or imprisonment) and economically (to attract and keep readers) to distance themselves from Polish nationalism. Nikolai Kostomarov , a Ukrainian, was the only member of staff who had a reputation for Polonophobia . Stasyulevich and the rest of the Herald 's editorial crew, however, had ties to Poland and sympathized with Polish nationalism. While none of them supported full independence,

464-496: The family legend goes, the dynasty was founded by Fyodor Pazukh from Lithuanian szlachta who left Mstislavl in 1496 to serve under Ivan III of Russia . Ekaterina Petrovna was born between 1730 and 1735 and died in 1769 when Nikolay was only over 2 years old. In 1770 Mikhail Karamzin married for the second time to Evdokia Gavrilovna Dmitrieva (1724—1783) who became Nikolay's stepmother. He had three siblings — Vasily, Fyodor and Ekaterina — and two agnate siblings. Nikolay Karamzin

493-407: The first two years it was a historical quarterly, but from 1868 it covered history, politics, and literature and came out each month. "The journal always had a serious, objective, professorial character; even in the most heated polemics, for example, it shunned harsh invective and often even avoided naming its adversary." It consistently supported the zemstvos , judicial reforms , and other reforms of

522-620: The founder of the review and essay (in the Western style) among the Russians. Also, Karamzin is sometimes considered a founding father of Russian conservatism. Upon appointing him a state historian, Alexander I greatly valued Karamzin's advice on political matters. His conservative views were clearly expounded in The Memoir on Old and New Russia , written for Alexander I in 1812. This scathing attack on reforms proposed by Mikhail Speransky

551-481: The happiest days of his life, enjoying the favour of Alexander I and submitting to him the sheets of his great work, which the emperor read over with him in the gardens of the palace of Tsarskoye Selo . He did not, however, live to carry his work further than the eleventh volume, terminating it at the accession of Michael Romanov in 1613. He died on 22 May (old style) 1826, in the Tauride Palace . A monument

580-567: The influence of Western ideas) assigned to Peter the Great . (The deeds of Ivan the Terrible are described with disgust, though.) In the battle pieces, he demonstrates considerable powers of description, and the characters of many of the chief personages in the Russian annals are drawn in firm and bold lines. As a critic Karamzin was of great service to his country; in fact he may be regarded as

609-550: The journal more and more from the radical movement, and in the spring of 1918 its publication was suppressed by the Soviet authorities (the last issue was March 1918). Among its contributors over the years were the scientists Kliment Timiryazev , Ivan Sechenov , and Ilya Mechnikov ; the historians Sergey Solovyov , Konstantin Kavelin , and Tadeusz Zielinski ; the literary scholars Alexander Veselovsky and Alexander Pypin ; and

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638-404: The midst of the society of learned men, he again took to literary work. In 1789, he resolved to travel, visiting Germany , France , Switzerland and England . On his return he published his Letters of a Russian Traveller , which met with great success. These letters, modelled after Irish-born novelist Laurence Sterne 's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy , were first printed in

667-609: The official version. His father Mikhail Yegorovich Karamzin (1724—1783) was a retired captain of the Imperial Russian Army who belonged to the Russian noble family of modest means founded by Semyon Karamzin in 1606. For many years its members had served in Nizhny Novgorod as high-ranking officers and officials before Nikolay's grandfather Yegor Karamzin moved to Simbirsk with his wife Ekaterina Aksakova of

696-498: The old Slavonic school. Karamzin also promoted a more "feminine" style of writing. His example proved beneficial for the creation of a Russian literary language, a major contribution for the history of Russian literature. In 1802 and 1803, Karamzin edited the journal the Envoy of Europe ( Vestnik Evropy ). It was not until after the publication of this work that he realized where his strength lay, and commenced his 12 volume History of

725-426: The paper's overall pro-Polish leaning was seen as dangerous and subversive. Kostomarov's critical and even Polonophobic articles served to protect the journal from accusations of being overly pro-Poland. During the heated ideological struggles of the 1870s and 1880s, the magazine tried to steer a course between moderate reformism and the kind of revolutionary socialism it consistently opposed; Leonid-Lyudvig Slonimsky,

754-525: The writers Ivan Turgenev , Ivan Goncharov , Aleksandr Ostrovsky , Grigory Danilevsky , and Vladimir Solovyov , among many others. Nikolay Karamzin Defunct Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (12 December [ O.S. 1 December] 1766 – 3 June [ O.S. 22 May] 1826) was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of

783-427: Was erected to his memory at Simbirsk in 1845. Karamzin is credited for having introduced the letter Ë/ë into the Russian alphabet some time after 1795. Prior to that simple E/e had been used, though there was also a rare form patterned after the extant letter Ю/ю . Note that Ë/ë is not an obligatory letter, and simple E/e is still often used in books other than dictionaries and schoolchildren's primers. Until

812-513: Was sent to Moscow to study under Swiss-German teacher Johann Matthias Schaden ; he later moved to St Petersburg, where he made the acquaintance of Ivan Dmitriev , a Russian poet of some merit, and occupied himself with translating essays by foreign writers into his native language. After residing for some time in Saint Petersburg he went to Simbirsk , where he lived in retirement until induced to revisit Moscow. There, finding himself in

841-469: Was to become a cornerstone of official ideology of imperial Russia for years to come. Several places in Russia were named after Karamzin: In 2016 on the occasion of the 250th birthday of the writer, the Central Bank of Russia issued a silver two-ruble coin dedicated to Karamzin in the series Outstanding People of Russia. Two commemorative stamps have been issued depicting N.M. Karamzin: in 1991 in

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