History of the Russian state.

"Karamzin is our first historian and the last chronicler..." - this definition was given by A. S. Pushkin, the great educator, writer and historian N. M.Karamzin. The famous "history of the Russian state", all twelve volumes of which were included in this book, has become a major event in the public life of the country, the era in the study of our past. As an Annex to it here is published a note about ancient and new Russia", for almost two centuries was under an unofficial ban. The publication is richly illustrated and primarily of prints from the rare album "Picturesque Karamzin", released in Pushkin times.