Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia
Title | Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | John Bell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 880 |
Release | 1764 |
Genre | Asia |
ISBN |
Mud and Stars
Title | Mud and Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Wheeler |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1524748021 |
With the writers of the golden age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country’s literary masters. Wheeler weaves these writers’ lives and works around their historical homes, giving us rich portraits of the many diverse Russias from which these writers spoke. Illustrated with both historical images and contemporary snapshots of the people and places that shaped her journey, Mud and Stars gives us timely, witty, and deeply personal insights into Russia, then and now. One of Smithsonian’s Ten Best Travel Books of the Year
Where Nights are Longest
Title | Where Nights are Longest PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Thubron |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 211 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780871131676 |
Descriptions of people met during the author's journey by car of over ten thousand miles throughout the Soviet Union are augmented by accounts of the historical background of their nation and region
Letters from Russia
Title | Letters from Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Marquis de Custine |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-06-26 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141394528 |
The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.
Russia, Travels and Studies
Title | Russia, Travels and Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Annette M. B. Meakin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 558 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Travels in Russia
Title | Travels in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | William Rae Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 782 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Travels in Siberia
Title | Travels in Siberia PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Frazier |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 2010-10-12 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9781429964319 |
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again. With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.