Saint-Domingue by Way of Saint Petersburg: Writing the Haitian Revolution in Imperial Russia
Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York CityIn 1802, Nikolai Karamzin founded the journal Messenger of Europe with the intention that it would inform the Russian public of current political developments in the West, including as they related to the European colonies. From its inaugural issue through 1804, about two dozen stories explicitly concerning the Haitian Revolution appeared in its pages, and as an editor, Karamzin was sympathetic to…