Salon of Karamzina

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SALON OF KARAMZINA, the salon of the widow of the historian N. M. Karamzin - Ekaterina Andreevna Karamzina (1780-1851) and of his daughter from the first marriage Sofia Nikolaevna Karamzina (1802-1856). Being one of the centres of cultural life of the capital, it gathered writers, artists, composers and other art figures in 1826-50. It was visited by K. P. Bryullov, Prince P. A. Vyazemsky, A. S. Dargomyzhsky, M. I. Glinka, N. V. Gogol, V. A. Zhukovsky, M. Y. Lermontov, I. P. Myatlev, Prince V. F. Odoevsky, A.S.Pushkin, Countess E. P. Rastopchina, Y. F. Samarin, A. O. Smirnova-Rosset, S. A. Sobolevsky and F. I. Tyutchev. Questions of poetry, policy, science, newly published books were discussed in the salon. According to the reminiscences of the contemporaries, simplicity was connected here with courtliness. Authors read their compositions. In 1839 Gogol read chapters from Dead Souls for the first time. All the conversations were held in Russian which was uncommon for secular salons of that epoch. In 1826-32, they gathered on 41 Mokhovaya Street; in the 1830s - on Mikhailovskaya Square (today 3 and 4 Arts Square), in the 1840s, at 16 Gagarinskaya Street.

References: Литературные салоны и кружки: Первая половина XIX в. / Ред. Н. Л. Бродский. Л., 1930; Литературный Петербург пушкинской эпохи: Адрес. указ. / Сост. В. Ф. Шубин // Дома у Пушкина: [Сб. ст.]. СПб., 1994. С. 100-111. (Арс; № 1).

D. N. Akhapkin. Bryullov Karl Pavlovich
Dargomyzhsky Alexander Sergeevich
Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich
Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Karamzin Nikolay Mikhailovich
Karamzina Ekaterina Andreevna
Karamzina Sofia Nikolaevna
Lermontov Mikhail Yurievich
Myatlev Ivan Petrovich
Odoevsky Vladimir Fedorovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Rostopchina Evdokiya Petrovna, Countess
Samarin Yury Fedorovich
Smirnova-Rosset Alexandra Osipovna
Sobolevsky Sergey Alexandrovich
Tyutchev Fedor Ivanovich
Vyazemsky Peter Andreevich, Duke
Zhukovsky Vasily Andreevich
Gagarinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Iskusstv Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Iskusstv Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Mokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 41
Литературные салоны и кружки: Первая половина XIX в. / Ред. Н. Л. Бродский. Л., 1930
Литературный Петербург пушкинской эпохи: Адрес. указ. / Сост. В. Ф. Шубин // Дома у Пушкина: [Сб. ст.]. СПб., 1994