Background
He was the grandson of historian Nikolay Karamzin.
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He was the grandson of historian Nikolay Karamzin.
Meshchersky was editor of Grazhdanin (The Citizen), a traditional conservative newspaper which received subsidies from the imperial authorities. Meshchersky also contributed to the periodicals The Russian Messenger and Moskovskiye Vedomosti (Moscow News). He was the author of several novels and memoirs.
His patrons, the Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, protected him from public disgrace.
According to Leon Trotsky, "The sole paper which Nicholas read for years, and from which he derived his ideas, was a weekly published on state revenue by Prince Meshchersky, a vile, bribed journalist of the reactionary bureaucratic clique, despised even in his own circle.".