Perevody N. M. Karamzina kak kul'turnyi universum

O. B. Kafanova's monograph 'N. M. Karamzin's translations as a cultural universe >> (2020) is the result of many years of comparative studies. Numerous articles on the topic preceded this book, which covers the period from 1783 to 1800. In the begin-ning Karamzin had good knowledge of French and German only so that he used numerous intermediaries in these languages to acquaint the Russian audience with world literature (ancient and eastern poetry, dramas of Shakespeare, Ossian etc.). Only in the final decade of the eighteenth century did Karamzin begin to draw on texts in English and Italian for these purposes. Among other things, the review establishes some previously unknown sources of Karamzin's translations. V. I. Si-mankov's supplemental list pursues the same objective