Neschastnyi Nikanor

"The Unfortunate Nicanor, or The Adventure of the Life of the Russian Noblen of the New World" is a scientific edition of a popular anonymous novel in the second half of the 18th century. The composition is interesting both as a fact of the backstory of mass literature, and as a reflection of the way of life and language of the era, and as an example of the interweaving of book tradition and document. The Supplements reproduce the odes of A.P. Nazaryev, which has not been republished for two and a half centuries, whose official biography is partially reflected in the novel, which allows us to perceive the text as a romanticization of the life of a real person and to assume that A.P. Nazaryev was not only a hero, but also the author of the work.