Zawartość „podróżnicza” czasopisma „Wiestnik Jewropy” a zainteresowania historyczne Nikołaja Karamzina i Michaiła Kaczenowskiego (Podróż do Klasztoru Woskriesienskiego, nazywanego obecnie Nową Jerozolimą)

Abstract

The article discusses the travel sketch A journey to Voskresensky Monastery, which is now known as New Jerusalem Monastery by Nikolay Karamzin (according to M. Barshev) or Mikhail Kachenovsky (according to the team of bibliographers led by E. Sokolinsky), published in the periodical “Vestnik Evropy” (1804, No 1). Nikolay Karamzin was a writer and historian, author of the History of the Russian State. Mikhail Kachenovsky was a professor and chancellor of the Moscow State University, who lectured history among other subjects. The discussed text contains a description of a visit to the monastery in Istra founded in the seventeenth century by Patriarch Nikon. A traveller is interested in the great figures and great events of Russian history and also sacral art. The article traces the development of historical research and historical prose in Russia in the early nineteenth century and its influence on Romantic literature (A. Pushkin, K. Ryleyev and others)