Dear friends, Happy new academic year! Our Literary Salon is opening its doors once again, and we are delighted to invite you to our first meeting of the season. This time, we will explore the world of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin — one of the most influential Russian writers and historians, a key figure of late 18th- and early 19th-century sentimentalism, and one of the great reformers of the Russian literary language. What will we talk about? The Age and the Man Who was Karamzin? We will take a closer look at his life and work, the emergence of Russian sentimentalism, and [...]