Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was born in the small village of Mikhailovka near Simbirsk, which is now Ulyanovsk Oblast. Another version claims he arrived into the world in 1765 at a different Mikhailovka village within the Orenburg Governorate.
Upon returning home from his European journey in 1789, Nikolay Karamzin published Letters of a Russian Traveller. These letters were modelled after Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and appeared first in the Moscow Journal before being issued in six volumes between 1797 and 1801.
Karamzin is credited for having introduced the letter ë into the Russian alphabet some time after 1795 to promote a more feminine style of writing. His elegant and flowing prose contributed significantly to creating a distinct Russian literary language that influenced later writers like Alexander Pushkin.
Nikolay Karamzin died on the 22nd of May old style 1826 inside the Tauride Palace. He terminated his twelve-volume History of the Russian State at the accession of Michael Romanov in 1613 without living to carry the work further than the eleventh volume.
Nikolay Karamzin wrote openly as a panegyrist of the autocracy throughout his career and considered Ivan III the architect of Russian greatness instead of Peter the Great. His conservative views appeared clearly in The Memoir on Old and New Russia, which served as a scathing attack on reforms proposed by Mikhail Speransky in 1812.