Russia in 1839 -Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia

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on the sovereign, who, on this occasion, deserved the praises addressed to him. The following passage occurs in the pamphlet:

" Which is the noble family in Eussia that has not some glorious association to claim with these walls ? Our fathers, our ancestors, all our political and warlike achievements, there received from the hands of the sovereign, and in the name of the country, the brilliant testimonies of their labours or their valour. There LomonoslofF and Dcrjavine struck their national lyre ; there Karamsin read the pages of his history before an august audience. That palace was the palladium, the monument of all our glories; it was the Kremlin of our modern history."

Credence may be therefore safely given to Karamsin when he recounts the enormities of the life of Ivan.