New Letteroscope, or the Excellent Judge of Nicholas Karamzin

Andrei Baltina New Letteroscope is devoted to the observations of the journey of Nikolai Karamzin to Europe (1789-1790) This campaign turned into the revolution of domestic literature: the novice writer Karamzin went on the road with one Russian written language and returned to another. On the way, he conceived and gathered a new sample of text, a special kind of optical device for reading and understanding the words, which is called a letter here. The researcher refers to the map of Karamzinsky wanderings, repeats its key segments. This allows you to detect new perspectives in the observation of the literary experiments of Nikolai Karamzin, which at one time marked the development of modern Russian prose