Bednaia Liza [Poor Liza]

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin is a poet, prose writer, translator, journalist, publisher, the most prominent representative of sentimentalism in Russian literature, a reformer of the Russian language and a major historiographer. His work became a school for the next generation of Russian writers. It was he who found new words and techniques for revealing the inner world of man, the subtlest shades of thoughts and experiences, and in this regard he became a direct teacher of Pushkin. In this edition, in addition to the famous novel 'Poor Lisa', a true masterpiece of Russian sentimentalism, there are other works by N.M. Karamzin - the story 'Natalia, the boyar's daughter', 'Martha the Posadnitsa', poems, articles in which the author reflects on science and art. All these works represent different facets of N. M.'s creative talent. Karamzin.