Nikolay Karamzin
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Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.
Portrait of Karamzin by Vasily Tropinin, 1818.
Ulyanovsk
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Ulyanovsk, known as Simbirsk until 1924, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 705 kilometers east of Moscow. Ulyanovsk has been the only Russ
Nikolay Karamzin
…history. Karamzin was born in the small village of Mikhailovka (modern-day Karamzinka village of Maynsky District, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia) near Simbirsk in the Znamenskoye family estate. Another version exists that he was born in 1765 in the Mikhailovka village of the Orenburg Governorate (modern-day…
View of Ulyanovsk, now dominated by Soviet-era buildings
Monument to Nikolay Karamzin
Ulyanovsk Oblast Administration
Ulyanovsk Government Administration building