Journeys to a Graveyard Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing /

Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Offord, Derek (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:1st ed. 2005.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 192
Subjects:
Language and languages-Style.
History.
Tourism.
Management.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Stylistics.
Tourism Management.
Regional Cultural Studies.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary
  • Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys
  • Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller
  • Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands
  • Botkin: Letters on Spain
  • Herzen: Letters from France and Italy
  • Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
  • Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border.

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