Nikolay Karamzin

Nikolay Karamzin

Nascimento : 1766-12-12,

Morte : 1826-06-03

História

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin (1766-1826) was a Russian historian, poet, and journalist who was the leading exponent of the sentimentalist school in Russian literature. From an early age, Karamzin was interested in Enlightenment philosophy. After extensive travel in western Europe, Karamzin described his impressions in his Letters of a Russian Traveller (1789–1790). Written in a self-revealing style influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Laurence Sterne, the 'Letters' helped introduce to Russia the sentimental style then popular in western Europe. Karamzin’s tale Poor Liza (1792), about a village girl who commits suicide after a tragic love affair, soon became the most celebrated work of the Russian sentimental school. In 1803 Karamzin’s friendship with the emperor Alexander I resulted in his appointment as court historian. The rest of his life was devoted to his monumental 12-volume History of the Russian State (1816-29); the first general survey of Russian history, conceived as a literary rather than an academic work. A main source for Pushkin’s drama Boris Godunov, Karamzin's 'History' is considered to have contributed much to the development of Russian literary language, for in it he sought to bring written Russian closer to the rhythms and conciseness of educated speech and to equip the language with a full cultural vocabulary.

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Nikolay Karamzin

Filmes

Poor Liza
Writer
A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.
Boris Godunov
Writer
Modest Mussorgsky's opera in prologue and four acts is performed by the Kirov Opera with performances from Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko and Sergei Leiferkust. Boris Godunov has obtained the throne of Russia by murdering the rightful heir Dmitry. An old monk, Pimen, witnessed this, and convinces his apprentice Grigory to avenge Dmitry's death. In the following years Grigory poses as Dmitry, raising an army against Boris, who is now convinced that he is being punished for the murder. Filmed in Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union, this particular production of Mussorgsky's 1872 tale of political upheaval is considered a highly unique and historical moment in opera. Robert Lloyd stars in the title role of Boris Godunov.
Poor Liza
Writer
The film is put on the motives of a well-known story of Nikolay Karamzin about the tragic love of the poor girl to the rich young man.