La Russie en 1839, Volume I by marquis de Astolphe Custine

"La Russie en 1839, Volume I" by marquis de Astolphe Custine is a travel account published in 1843. After visiting Russia in 1839, meeting Tsar Nicholas I and other prominent figures, Custine depicts the country as backward and governed by fear and violence. Though banned in Russia, the work achieved great success across Europe. His observations proved remarkably prescient, later drawing comparisons between tsarist Russia and the Soviet regime during the Cold War. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790-1857
Title La Russie en 1839, Volume I
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Russie_en_1839 Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Russie_en_1839
Credits Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 70.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
Subject Russia -- Description and travel
Category Text
eBook-No. 25755
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Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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