The book published is not a study of Karamzin's work as a whole and not a biography in the sense of a list of external facts of his life. This is a biography of the soul, an attempt to reveal the inner pathos of the writer's search, which, according to Yu. M. Lotman, he's been forging himself all his life. There are writers who spontaneously go through life, there are, on the contrary, consciously creating their own personality, not only artistic, but also human, everyday. There are also literary critics who neglect this and even deny the conscious formation of the personality of a great writer, there are, on the contrary, very last interested. This is what [D] is about. M. Lotman, who even at Pushkin revealed a similar formation . The more reason for this approach is given by Karamzin ..