The history of the state of Russian Nikolai Karamzin. A book in a collection of handmade leather binding with a painted

A stylishly decorated gift edition in leather binding with gold and embossed embossing on the cover, with a tripartite gold wipes and silk lames. "Karamzin is our first historian and the last chronicler ...", - this definition was given by A.S. Pushkin to the great enlightener, writer and historian N.M. Karamzin. The famous "history of the Russian state", all twelve volumes of which entered this book, has become a major event in the country"s public life, an era in the study of our past. As an appendix to it here also publishes a "note about ancient and new Russia", which was almost two centuries under an unspoken ban. The publication is richly illustrated - and above all, engravings from the rarest album "Picturesque Karamzin", which was published in Pushkin times