La Russie en 1839, Volume I
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Russie_en_1839 Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Russie_en_1839 Release date is 2008-06-10
Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)
"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.)