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2 unusual facts about Nikolay Karamzin


Nikolay Karamzin

The preceding attempt of Tatishchev was merely a rough sketch, inelegant in style, and without the true spirit of criticism.

From 1797 to 1799, he issued another miscellany or poetical almanac, The Aonides, in conjunction with Derzhavin and Dmitriev.


Vasily Shibanov

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".


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