Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin is the great Russian historian and writer, a reformer of Russian literary language. The creator of the immortal tale “Poor Liza,” he not only laid the foundation for a new literary direction—sentimentalism—but also charted further paths for the development of Russian literature. However, the main work of his entire life is rightfully considered his twelve-volume “History of the Russian State”—a monumental, labor-intensive undertaking in which the author for the first time revealed to readers the full scale of our past. The well-known historian and writer Vladimir Muravyov not only conducted a deep study of the literary and historical works of the court historiographer, but also demonstrated the surprising modernity of many of Karamzin’s remarks and conclusions. An unquestionable merit of the book is that the author managed to recreate the living image of his hero—a careful son, a loving husband, a caring father. A person with a capital letter, devoted to his homeland to the very end of his life. Under the editing and with the accompanying apparatus by V. Muravyov, collections and individual works by N. M. Karamzin were published by various publishing houses.