#nikolay karamzin

[laurapetrie]

HEROINES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE: the maid Enveloped in an aura of nostalgia, she seems to come from the world of fairy tales or from an idealized Victorian epoch, in which women, in the form of Archadian shepherdesses, or country aristocrats, were still granted private spaces and secret gardens. They long to take refuge in hidden places off-limits to men. These qualities evoke an age of innocence dressed in night gowns, and undergarments all in white, with embroidery and applique, ribbons and lace - a timeless look. And, of course, their obsessively brushed hair is inevitably long and curly, held in place with ribbons, bows and combs. This nature-loving romantic heroine loves to walk barefoot on the dew-drenched grass of dawn, to read fables and study music. She can be a free woodland creature or a highly refined damsel. - GIULIA PIVETTA

[kenneturner]

Touring HTOWN Wall Art

Touring HTOWN Wall Art

Kenne D., Kenne G., and Katelyn — Image by Janie “What is life? – A novel. Who is the author? – Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep… and sleep.” — Nikolai Karamzin

[books0977]

Poor Liza (1827). Orest Kiprensky (Russian, 1782-1836). Oil on canvas. Tretyakov Gallery.

The painting was inspired by Nikolay Karamzin’s novella Poor Liza (1792) that narrates about a young peasant girl, Liza, who committed suicide, when her seducer, the nobleman Erast, had cooled of her and then abandoned her for the sake of an old but rich widow. The artistic language is simple, and yet symbolically rich. The combination of pink and white in the heroine’s clothes means the purity and freshness of her youth, the carnation in her hand – her tender sincere love.

[ben-bruce-is-our-hero]

But sometimes - though they were very rare - a golden ray of hope, a ray of solace brightened the gloom of her sorrow. ‘When he returns to me, how happy I will be! How everything will change! ’ Her gaze brightened at the thought and her cheeks became rosy, and Liza smiled like a May morning after a stormy night.

Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza

[dodiesemineur]

Nikolai Karamzin, “The Shadow and the Substance”

[odettecarotte]

Let us turn to Liza. Night fell -- the mother blessed her daughter and wished her sweet dreams, but on this occasion her desire was not fulfilled: Liza slept very badly. She imagined the new guest of her soul -- the image of Erast -- so vividly that she awoke almost every minute, awoke and sighed. Liza got up before the rising of the sun, went to the bank of the Moscow river, sat down on the grass, and feeling despondent, she looked at the white mists which trembled in the air and, rising upwards, left glittering droplets on the green coverlet of nature. Silence reigned everywhere. But soon the rising luminary of the day awakened all creation: groves, hedges came to life, little birds fluttered and began to sing, flowers raised their little heads in order to drink in the life-giving raise of light. But Liza kept sitting despondently. Oh Liza, Liza! What has happened to you?

--Nikolai Karamzin, "Poor Liza," translated by Carl Proffer.

[russianreader]

No Kidding

Russia for the Rueful: A Map of Fear | Ivan Davydov | Republic | 7 December 2021 Once upon a time, an influential, respected person and I came up with a project meant to illustrate the absurdity of the Russian Criminal Code’s infamous Article 282, the one about “inciting hatred and enmity.” Oh, what a long time ago it was. Back then, there were simply no other articles in the Criminal Code that…

[thehouseofthedead]

@glasses-dog let the fucking gremlins loose. 

WHO LET THE FUCKING GREMLINS LOOSE

WHAT TEA DID THEY SEE

[broken-academia]

Ivan the Terrible and his Son, Ilya Repin (1883-1885)

“He (Ivan the Terrible) put his hand on him (Tsarevich). Boris Godunov wanted to come to his aid but the Tsar inflicted several wounds to him with the point of his sceptre and struck the Tsarevich with it on the head. He then fell to the ground, spilling his blood. The father's fury disappeared. Paling with fear, trembling, in complete shock, he exclaimed "I killed my son" and he threw himself down to kiss him; pouring out the blood flowing from a deep wound, he wept, sobbed, called for the doctors…” — 18th century Russian historian Nikolay Karamzin, on the Death of Tsarevich

[tj-wrote-things]

A Journey of Trust

Based off of this ask.

Nikolai Lantsov x fem!reader

A/N: lmfao sorry this took so long.I had finals :)

It’s pretty good though, but sometimes I have trouble putting my thoughts into words. Have fun tho :) Also im sucker for unspoken attractions

okay

First things first, let's establish that shy and timid are not the same.

You’re shy, and not quick to trust, yes, but that absolutely does not mean that you back off from an argument

Or from unsolicited flirty banter

“Have you changed your hair, y/n?, I must say it looks very-”

The words literally die in his mouth when he sees the look you’re giving him

Not a glare, but definitely not soft

You’re not there yet, but you sit there at the campfire with everyone, and stare at Nikolai with an eyebrow raised and an unamused smirk, silently daring him to finish his sentence.

Nikolai has no idea what to make of the look, obviously

Princes get used to the word yes

This man has been told time and time again how charming he can be, so seeing that unamused look on your face yowzah

The boy practically short circuits.

Doesn’t show it though, obvi

The unreturned bater doesn't really bother him in the long run,but it does take awhile for him to weasel a smile out of you.

You think he might throw a party, saints, he’s so elated

The joke was so dumb though ngl

You and Nikolai had been walking through the library, looking for maps of the surrounding areas of Karamzin, when Nikolai picked up a book

It was called “Provin’ya Istorii” 

“The Real Story”

“Have you read this?” he asked you as he tossed you the book. “The Provin’ya Istorii”

You shook your head as you caught it and looked back into the shelves.

“It's A book about the supposed truth of royals. It's all propaganda to make us like you and your family.” You tossed it back to him

Nikolai smirked before making his way to you

“Do you like me?”

You paused, and it seemed that told him all he needed to know.

“No,” you said lamely.

He just smiled, and picked up the book, waving it at you.

“Don’t worry, I’ll provin’ ya like me soon enough.

You let out a ridiculous snort at the play on words before immediately turning back to the shelf.

Nikolai seemed more shocked than happy in the beginning because “did she just laugh at my joke??????”

He asked you as much, smile on his face

You rushed out a no and a bye, and made a beeline back to the spinning wheel to find Alina

There's a very solid line between laughing at a bad joke and really trusting someone

After all, in the heat of battle, your lives were in each other's hands

Literally

He saved your life during a skirmish in the fold on the hummingbird

Volcra had been attacking from all sides, bullets doing little to stop them, when you were suddenly lifted off of the deck and into the air

Obviously you did your best to fight the damn thing off, but it was futile

That is until three bullets hit it straight in the eyes, and the talons let go of you

Rather unceremoniously

You were falling, too far from the dack to be entirely comfortable

Just as you were about to fall past the boat to your death

A hand caught your arm over the ledge- Nikolai was leaning down, holding on to your arm like his life depended on it

you both knew it did

He pulled you up as fast as he could, and when he finally got you onto the deck, you nodded resolutely.

The two of you stood for a moment amid the battle, and you managed a breathless, “Thanks. Really.” 

Nikolai nodded back with a firm pat on your shoulder, knowing your boundaries when it comes to touch and trust.

“Anytime. Can’t very well lose my best soldier.”

“Don't let Tamar hear you say that.”

You smiled at one another

“Oh, I dread to think.”

Honesty, it was all uphill from there

Comforted by the knowledge that you could trust him to watch your back in a fight, and as a friend, you began to open up to Nikolai, telling him stories from where you grew up, and how you felt about the war

At first it was inconsequential stuff, like what girls in school made you want to commit murder, that sort of thing.

But then it became easier to tell him the personal stuff

Like how afraid you were, for yourself, and for Alina, if you couldn't win the war.

And how difficult you really found it to pack your bags and go on a mission you knew you may not come back from. You did it because you knew that it was your job, and because people depended on you to get it done.

He sympathized. As King, he had so much on his shoulders, it honestly made him want to sneak off to the Volkovny(whatever)

With you obviously, and you both knew it.

Really there was no need to say it

you both knew

[alexey-venetsianov]

Portrait of Nikolay Karamzin, 1828, Alexey Venetsianov

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/alexey-venetsianov/portrait-of-nikolay-karamzin

[degenderates]

The darkling and alina for the character asks!

LET’s DO THIS-- (also i’m so mad i accidentally already did this but then clicked away and it was gone so this is the second time i’m doing this :sob:)

alina

1: sexuality headcanon BI BI BI (like the song...i think I'm hilarious)

2: otp darklina!!! *heart eyes* as y’all know, this is my brand:)

3: brotp alina + genya & alina + zoya! (though i also ship zoyalina & sometimes genyalina too lol). i also love the tgt gang with harshaw, zoya, genya, david, & mal! (and oncat, we can’t forget our legend<3)

4: notp malina:/ i do like them as friends though! in a fanon universe where he isn’t so clingy.

5: first headcanon that pops into my head though alina loses her sun summoning powers in the fold, she still retains the wisps of shadow control she took from the darkling in s&s! and though she only uses it to entertain the children (not around mal, of course, it scares him), it makes her happy. it makes her remember. what alina doesn’t know though, is by her using this power, like calls to like, and she ends up being a reason the darkling was able to rise again.

6: favorite line from this character either when she says. “and you might make me a monster”, “yes you are infinitely wiser and more experienced...but i am an apt pupil” (i know i prolly misquoted that one lol” or “sure, he was ancient, but could he swim?”

7: one way in which I relate to this character oh a lot... alina’s like my spirit animal. we’re the same age, we’re the same race in the show (wasian) - at least in the show, we’re both in love with the darkling, we’re both self-deprecating and sarcastic...yeah!

8: thing that gives me second-hand embarrassment about this character ugh, when she’s shading zoya and doing the whole “i’m not like other girls” thing in s&b. i’m like, girl! please just grow out of that phase (it’s SO satisfying when she comes into her power<3)

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? mmm according to fanon, a complete cinnamon roll, but realistically, she’s like 50-50. alina kills people, manipulates people, she’s not innocent haha.

aleksander

1: sexuality headcanon definitely bi or pan!

2: otp also darklina<3

3: brotp is it weird that i want nikolai and him to be friends? (again, i ship them in some aus, but whatever:P)

4: notp i can’t ship him with anyone but alina or nikolai!

5: first headcanon that pops into my head i definitely think he had mental health issues in his youth. and mommy issues. and the two fed each other. one of the reasons that being in a relationship with him is really toxic & hard to navigate!

6: favorite line from this character “the problem with wanting is that it makes us weak” & “don’t let me be alone” 100000% no cap. in those two moments he shows the alina his vulnerability and it’s just...aAAH.

7: one way in which I relate to this character i, too, am in love with jessie mei li<3 no, but in all seriousness, i think there’s an awesome nobility and sense of purpose in the darkling, and i also really value honor & loyalty.

8: thing that gives me secondhand embarrassment about this character i always cringe when he destroys Karamzin. NO boy that is NOT how you get a girl to com back to you:/ get better soon:/

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? 10000% problematic fave. it’s been established i think XD

thanks for the ask frey!! ask me about a character:)

[vladimir-nabokov-official]

A closer examination of Nabokov’s literalist legacy shows his implied position on the issue of translation to be more nuanced than his declarations and polemical statements. While “A Hero of Our Time” and “Eugene Onegin” follow the literalist dogma, “The Song of Igor’s Campaign” breaks free from it. Even though Nikolai Karamzin’s ‘Chto nasha zhizn’?’ and Konstantin Batiushkov’s ‘Ty znaesh’, chto izrek’ are mere epigrams, their presence in the “Eugene Onegin” commentary indicates that rhyme has other uses apart from ‘begriming’ and ‘besliming’ foreign works in inept imitations. It is regrettable that the fact that Nabokov’s position proves to be more flexible in practice than his rhetoric suggests is lost on the majority of his critics and students.

Stanislav Shvabrin, Between Rhyme and Reason: Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue (310)

[weirdletter]

Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), by Valeria Sobol, Northern Illinois University Press, 2020. Info: cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian empire enact deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia’s idiosyncratic imperial experience. Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia’s own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms “the imperial uncanny.” Focusing on two spaces of “the imperial uncanny”—the Baltic “North”/Finland and the Ukrainian “South”—Haunted Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today.

Contents: Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction. From the Island of Bornholm to Taman′: The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny     PART I: THE NORTH 1. A Gothic Prelude: Nikolai Karamzin’s “The Island of Bornholm” 2. In Search of the Russian Middle Ages: The Livonian Tales of the 1820s 3. “Gloomy Finland” and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation     PART II: THE SOUTH 4. Ukraine: Russia’s Uncanny Double 5. On Mimicry and Ukrainians: Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel′sky’s The Convent Graduate 6. ’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

[books0977]

Portrait of Sofia Nikolaevna Karamzina (dated 1836? l.r.). Pimen Nikitich Orlov (Russian, 1812-1863). Oil on canvas.

This work, depicting Nikolai Karamzin’s daughter Sofia, was painted by Pimen Orlov while he was still a student at the Imperial Academy of Arts and a pupil of the leading 19th century portraitist Karl Briullov. Nikolai Karamzin’s daughter from his first marriage with Elizaveta Ivanovna Protasova, Sofia was made lady-in-waiting to Empress Elizaveta Alexeevna in 1821. Witty, intelligent and well-read, she jointly hosted a literary salon with her stepmother Ekaterina Karamzina.

[andrewbroz]

A Comparison

   by Nikolai Karamzin    trans. by @andrewbroz What is our life? – A novel. Author? – Anonymous. We start, we laugh, we weep, And then we fall asleep... 1797