Summary
Nikolaj Karamzin: Letters of a Russian Traveler
One of the most significant and popular works of Russian literature at the end of the 18th century, Letters of a Russian Traveler by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, was written in epistolary form as a personal diary of a young Russian writer who traveled around Western Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Recording his impressions, thoughts, describing landscapes, conversations with European writers and philosophers, historical facts and legends about the places he passes through, the "Russian traveler" introduces his friends in the homeland to a new world, the social, political and spiritual life of people from the West at a time when the foundations of feudal society were strongly shaken by the French bourgeois revolution. institutions of Germany, Switzerland, France and England. The results of the study of the history of major European cities were presented to him, and the writer's impressions of Leipzig and Berlin, Paris and London were presented in great detail and with special care. At the same time, the history of cities is most often shown through material cultural monuments, museums, palaces, churches, libraries, universities, and the history of countries is revealed through literature, science and art.
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