The history of the people belongs ... to whom? Or news of court historiography
“Watching, monarch beloved! The heart -footed man reads thoughts, history betrays the act of generous kings, and in the most distant offspring inspires love for their sacred memory. Take a gracious book that serves as evidence. The history of the people belongs to the king, ”wrote Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, who held the post of“ court historiographer ”on December 8, 1815 in the initiative preface to his“ history of the Russian state ”.