Reading Karamzin (N.M. Karamzin “History of the Russian State” 250 unique illustrations, Moscow, EKSMO, 2003, 1024 pages)

“Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin is our the first historian and the last chronicler”-such a definition gave A.S.Pushkin to the great educator, writer and historian N.M.Karamzin (1766-1826). The famous “History of the Russian State”, all 12 volumes of which were included into this book, became a big social event in the country, epoch in studying of our…

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