Nikolay Karamzin (1766 - 1826) - is a Russian writer of the epoch of the Sentimentalism, famous historian, and creator of a fundamental multivolume work History of the Russian State He was the editor of two influential periodicals of the end of the XVIII - the beginning of the XIX- centuries - the Moscow Journal and the Envoy of Europe The story Poor Liza was written in 1792. This is a typical sto...