Razgovor v komnatah. Karamzin, Chaadaev, Gercen i nachalo sovremennoy Rossii

Novaya kniga Kirilla Kobrina - o tom, kak russkoe obschestvo stanovilos' sovremennym; o formirovanii yazyka, na kotorom do sego dnya obsuzhdayutsya vazhneyshie voprosy - politicheskie, kul'turnye, social'nye, eticheskie. V knige tri glavnyh geroya - Nikolay Karamzin, Petr Chaadaev i Aleksandr Gercen; blagodarya ih usiliyam poyavilas' sama vozmozhnost' takogo roda diskussiy. Oni ne tol'ko vyrabotali yazyk, no i sformulirovali osnovnye temy - ot otnosheniya Rossii k Evrope do vozmozhnosti "russkogo socializma". Inymi slovami, kniga o tom, kak Karamzin, Chaadaev i Gercen delali Rossiyu evropeyskoy.