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Andrey Baldin – The New Letter-Scope, or The Transcendental Journey of Nikolay Karamzin
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Nikolay Karamzin’s birth with this unique exploration of his revolutionary 1789–1790 European journey. Writer, traveler, and literary researcher Andrey Baldin retraces Karamzin’s path, revealing how the young author transformed Russian literature by crafting a new written language along the way. This “optical instrument” for reading and understanding words – dubbed the Letter-Scope – became the foundation of modern Russian prose.
Baldin, a member of the Union of Journalists of Moscow and the Union of Russian Writers, is the founder of the “Travel Journal” literary research group. His work has earned multiple “October” magazine prizes (2002, 2004, 2010) and was a finalist for the “Big Book” award in 2009 and 2010. This book offers fresh perspectives on Karamzin’s literary experiments, stripping away historical filters to reveal his true role as a linguistic innovator and architect of the Russian language.
Price: 1651.00 RUB
