Students of Penza learned about the fate and legacy of Nikolay Karamzin

December 2021 marks 255 years since the birth of the famous Russian historian, the largest Russian writer Nikolay Karamzin. Employees of the Regional Center of the Presidential Library based on the Lermontov Penza Regional Library introduced the eighth-graders of school № 79 to the Presidential Library’s collection Nikolay Karamzin (1766-1826), thanks to which schoolchildren have opportunity to learn about the amazing fate and legacy of the reformer of the Russian literary language, the creator of the "History of the Russian State".

The staff of the center told about the website of the Presidential Library, showed how to work with the sources of this portal, as a result of which the children independently found several books about Karamzin and answered questions about his life and career.

The schoolchildren found out that Nikolay Karamzin became famous for the publication of "Letters from a Russian Traveler" based on his impressions of a trip to Europe during the French Revolution.

The teenagers learned that it was Nikolay Karamzin who introduced such words as "falling in love", "impression", "disaster", "charity", "attraction", "suspicion", "industry", "sophistication", one of the first use the letter "YO"(E) and much more.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection Penza Region: Pages of History. It includes archives, essays, studies and statistical materials spotlighting various aspects of the history of the region at the end of the 18th - first third of the 20th centuries: demographic, geographical, socio-economic, socio-political and others.

Based on the materials of http://liblermont.ru portal.