The last chronicler, or two lives of Nikolai Karamzin. Eidelman N. Ya.

The book of the famous writer, publicist, literary critic N. Ya. Eidelman is dedicated to the main work of N. M. Karamzin - “History of the Russian State”.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia faced the urgent need for wide transformations in the life of the state. “The Republican in the soul and the faithful subject of the King of the Russian”, as Karamzin wrote about himself, proposed his own concept of transformations based on the ideals of the enlightenment and development of civil self -awareness of Russian society. The foundation of this concept was the “history of the Russian state”, which Karamzin began work on in 1803 and continued until 1826, until the last days of his life.

Karamzin was looking for ancient annals, studied, compared, critically evaluated thousands of evidence and documents - domestic, Western European, Byzantine, Arabic... Since Karamzin created his work not only peering into the distant past, but with constant An eye on Russia of its time and with the thought of the future of the country, many pages of “history” for his contemporaries were, according to Pushkin, “like a fresh newspaper”.

The book of N. Ya. Eidelman with extreme clarity shows a merciless struggle of opinions, deadly disputes, boiling around the Karamzin "history", which has become one of the main events in the then literature, historiography, and as a result - in the entire political life.

A bright political temperament is the most important feature of Karamzin-History.

The vast application to this publication published little -known political manifestos of Karamzin - “A note on ancient and new Russia in its political and civilian relations”, “The opinion of a Russian citizen”, as well as the manifesto of the manifesto of the manifesto of the manifesto of about His entry into the throne.