Poor Liza

The collection of Karamzin's novellas is a meeting with the classics that forever changed Russian literature.

Once, the novella "Poor Liza" shocked readers with its novelty – there were neither magnificent palaces nor heroic deeds, but a simple peasant girl with a lively heart, her joys and sorrows. Karamzin was the first to show that tragedy and sublime feelings can exist in the fate of an ordinary person, and that tenderness and compassion can transform the reader's soul.

The heroines of the novellas collected in this edition belong to different classes and even eras, their fates are quite different. But there is something that unites them: the ability to empathize, openness to the world, faith in love. By creating the images of Liza, Marfa, Natalia, N. M. Karamzin changed the course of Russian literature and showed readers the amazing and complex world of emotions, where there is no place for simple solutions.