The preceding attempt of Tatishchev was merely a rough sketch, inelegant in style, and without the true spirit of criticism.
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From 1797 to 1799, he issued another miscellany or poetical almanac, The Aonides, in conjunction with Derzhavin and Dmitriev.
Nikolay Nekrasov | Nikolay Atanasov | Nikolay Rumyantsev | Nikolay Pirogov | Nikolay Bogolyubov | Nikolay Trusov | Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky | Nikolay Strunnikov | Nikolay Semyonov | Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky | Nikolay Kozlov | Nikolay Kostomarov | Nikolay Haytov | Nikolay Gnedich | Nikolay Antonov | Nikolay Yegorovich Makarov | Nikolay Vasilyevich Komarov | Nikolay Smolensky | Nikolay Shkot | Nikolay Raevsky (died 1843) | Nikolay Petrovich Fyodorov | Nikolay Okhlopkov | Nikolay Muravyov | Nikolay Mamonov | Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. | Nikolay Krestinsky | Nikolay Kolosovsky | Nikolay Koksharov | Nikolay Khomeriki | Nikolay Kedrov, Sr. |
For a source Tolstoy used the fragment of Nikolay Karamzin’s History of the Russian State relating how "…Kurbsky by night clandestinely left his home, climbed over the city wall, found two of the horses his loyal servant prepared for him and safely reached Volmar, then under the Lithuanians".