Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

The first detailed biography of N.M. Karamzin, published in 1849, was written by a young writer and novice scientist A.V. Starchevsky. The main source of research was, according to the author, the writings of Karamzin, who claimed that the Creator is always depicted in creation, and often against his will.
For the Starchevsky Karamzin, an example of a moral person and a conscious citizen who expressed his credo in a letter to A.I. Turgenev with these words: "Do what and how you can, only love good and what is good - ask your conscience. Be a state secretary, minister or author: all one! "
The first biography of Karamzin has not lost its significance today. The modern reader learns from it a lot not only of the hero himself, but also about what place he occupied in the intellectual life of the generation of the mid -19th century