01841cam a22003133u 4500 25850 UtSlPG 20260610133607.0 m cr n 260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 DK Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790-1857 La Russie en 1839, Volume II Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2008 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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 2008-06-20 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 II" by marquis de Astolphe Custine is a travel account published in 1843. After journeying through Russia in 1839, Custine portrays the empire as backward and governed by fear and violence under Tsar Nicolas I. His critical observations, made accessible through connections to high society, created a scandal—banned in Russia but widely read across Europe. The book gained renewed attention during the Cold War when readers noticed striking parallels between tsarist Russia and the Soviet regime. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Russia -- Description and travel https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25850 66851 66851