Letters of a Russian traveler. Karamzin N.M.

Having returned after a annual trip to Europe, Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin established the Moscow magazine, in which since the first number and within two years of its existence in 1791-1792 published “letters of the Russian traveler” - his extremely extremely The elementary work of the epistolary genre, which was destined to become one of the most significant phenomena of Russian literary sentimentalism, is also a matter of form. The story of the “Letters...” continued even after the history of the “Moscow magazine” ended: Karamzin continued to work on them in subsequent years. The first complete edition of “Letters...”, due to the close attention of the censors to fragments dedicated to the French Revolution, became possible after the death of Paul I in 1801.

Over time, in addition to the undeniable literary virtues of the “letters...”, the unique historical historical value of the image of Europe, seen by the eyes of a traveler from Russia, as well as the image of this enlightened Russian traveler of the eighteenth century, is increasingly distinct. P>