PERSONALITY AND WORKS OF N. KARAMZIN AS A MEASURE OF METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE SCIENCE

Abstract

This article deals with the dynamics of statements
about personality and creativity of N. Karamzin from
the fi rst contemporary appraisals to the works of the late 20th
- early 21st century. The author examines the positions of
the cultural-historical school, formal school of beginning of the
20th century, Semiotic school, and others; and this reveals the
role that the N. Karamzins works had played for the formation
of the Russian science of literature. The study of Karamzins
works (as well as those of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
and others) for today can be considered as an independent
branch of Russian culture, which requires a separate study.
The reception of works of Russian classic writer is inscribed
in the article in a broad historical and literary, historical and
cultural context of the era, the paper rises the problems of
further research of the history of Russian and foreign study of
Karamzins works.