La Custine, Astolphe, marquis de 1790-1857 creator text utu 2008 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Russia -- Description and travel DK Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25755 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25755 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133606.0 25755