The creation of reader by N. M. Karamzin
In his study “Sotvorenie Karamzina”, Y. M. Lotman claimed rightly, that Karamzin created a Russian reader by his literary, journalistic and publishing working. The article examines how this process took place in the Urals. The sources were the Karamzin’s (works) studies, published at the end of the 18th - early 20th century, preserved the owner’s signs, reader litters and record keeping documentation of Ural libraries (also catalogs and reports) too. According to the sign of the owner (stamps, bookplates and superexlibrises, owner records) among his individual readers were the clergy, the owners of factories and gold mines, mining engineers and artisans, teachers of educational institutions and representatives of the Ural officials. In the Ural library, the collections the books of Karamsin, the writer, poet, essayist and historian, fully retained numerous traces of reading, which allow us to study the reader's emotional reactions and preferences in the XXI century.