Word: karamzin
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...probably came from Amsterdam. But his ambition quickly grew. It was to be the Paris, the Venice of the North. As usual in Russia, nameless Russians from remote villages were sacrificed to the leader's dreams. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands died. St. Petersburg, the 19th century historian Nikolai Karamzin wrote in words that fit today, "is a city founded on tears and corpses." It was, many felt, a fitting legacy of Russia's greatest reformer, who dragged his empire into the modern age by a mixture of will-power and terror--an all-powerful ruler who toward...
...Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia, Richard Pipes. Atheneum...
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