Russian essays and stories (Registro nro. 117443)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DK |
| -- | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Baring, Maurice, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1874-1945 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Russian essays and stories |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
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| General note | "The essays and stories contained in this book are reprinted for the greater part from the 'Morning post.'"--Preface |
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| General note | A journey in the north -- Down the Volga -- Sketches in central and south Russia: The religion of Russian peasants. A conversation with a landowner. The birth of the bell -- Conversations with Dimitri Nikolaievitch: English liberals in Russia. Byron -- Modern literature in Russia -- The Russian stage -- A Russian mystery play -- A dream in the Duma -- A Zemstvo report -- Anti-Semitism in Russia -- Prince Ourousov's memoirs -- Pogrom -- The antichrist -- "Dirge in marriage" -- The governor's niece -- A police officer -- The amorphists -- Sherlock Holmes in Russia. |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-08-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Neil Mercer and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Russian essays and stories" by Maurice Baring is a collection of essays and short stories written in the early 20th century. It offers a wide-ranging portrait of Russian life—travel sketches, cultural criticism, stage and literature notes, and reportage—rounded off with short fiction drawn from the same milieu. The emphasis is on impartial, first-hand observation of ordinary people—peasants, workers, soldiers, officials, and merchants—encountered across trains, rivers, fairs, and provincial towns. The opening of the collection frames a pledge of non-polemical truth-telling in a witty dedication and preface, then launches into vivid travel pieces. First come third-class railway journeys north and west of Moscow: cramped night rides, sharp dialogue about the Duma and mutinies, a comic quarrel with a guard, Kronstadt dockers trading English phrases, a near-theft at Vologda station, and recruits and a feldsher debating war and reform. Next, the Volga voyage unfolds: Yaroslavl’s twilight streets, the teeming Nijni-Novgorod Fair and its Liberal press, family debates over a borrowed novel, and the river’s grandeur down past Kazan, Samara, Saratov, and Tzaritsyn to Astrakhan—punctuated by generous third-class cabins, Cossack banter, a would‑be opera singer, folk hauling songs, and the night scent of new-mown hay. Returning inland, station halls brim with sleepers and sunflower seeds, and a guarded cashier hints at unrest. The sketches then shift south to contrast Central and Little Russia, a blind hurdy-gurdy player, and a train debate where a soldier’s blunt theism clashes with a monk—leading to reflections on the peasants’ practical mysticism capped by two stark anecdotes. A talk with a moderate landowner probes “culture” and weighs Turgenev’s artistry against the tougher realities of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and the final pages begin the ceremony of casting a village bell. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Methuen & Co., 1908 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Russia -- Fiction |
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| Uncontrolled term | Short stories, English |
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| Uncontrolled term | Russia |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Russia -- Social life and customs |
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| Uncontrolled term | English essays -- 20th century |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/russianessayssto00bariiala">https://archive.org/details/russianessayssto00bariiala</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76718">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76718</a> |
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