History of the Russian State. Anniversary edition in 2 books
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History of the Russian State. Anniversary edition in 2 books
49.99 €
39.99 €
"Karamzin is our first historian and the last chronicler..." - A. S. Pushkin wrote about his great contemporary Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766 -1826). A famous historian, writer and educator, N. M. Karamzin turned his 12-volume work - "The History of the Russian State" - to all Russians, contemporaries and descendants. This book became the most important event in the life of society, an epoch in the study of our country's past. This fundamental work changed the face of Russian culture. Thanks largely to the merits of N. M. Karamzin, Russian culture in all its genres entered its brilliant XIX century as a great world culture. The illustrated edition of the "History of the Russian State" offered to the reader is timed to the 250th anniversary of N. M. Karamzin. The publishing house for the first time presents to the modern Russian reader a full cycle of drawings from the album "The History of the Russian State in the images of its rulers" by the professor of historical painting of the Imperial Academy of Arts V. P. Vereshchagin and a full cycle of drawings from the album "The History of the Russian State in the images of its rulers. P. Vereshchagin and a full cycle of the rarest lithographs by B. A. Chorikov from the series "Picturesque Karamzin". The edition is provided with extensive modern commentaries and notes that explain little-known realities, as well as biographical data on historical figures mentioned by Karamzin. The appendix contains the "Note on Ancient and New Russia in its Political and Civil Relations", which was not included in the main collection. The edition is provided with a detailed index
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Gift Editions. Anniversary editions