TY - BOOK AU - Custine,Astolphe,marquis de TI - La Russie en 1839, Volume I AV - DK PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Russia -- Description and travel N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25755 ER -