"Letters of a Russian Traveler" in the context of Russian travel literature
The article deals with Russian travel literature development over the Post-Peter epoch due to the changes of the major geographical route is of actual travelling by Russian people abroad from the East to the West. Focus of attention is at the analysis of the formation of European «earthy heaven» image in this literature and critics. In the context of such topics «Letters of a Russian Traveler» by N.M. Karamzin are mostly viewed from cultural and typological point of view (poetics peculiarities, etc.)