This lecture is devoted to the life and works of Nikolai Karamzin. His life is defined as "a deed of an honest man". Themes in whose development Karamzin played a major or a leading role are specified. Those were the theme of the city as a special cultural phenomenon, the theme of friendship as well as the theme of childhood. Letters of a Russian Traveller, Natalia the Boyar's Daughter as well as History of the Russian State, Karamzin's major work, are mentioned.