TY - BOOK AU - Custine,Astolphe,marquis de TI - La Russie en 1839, Volume III 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 2008-11-15; 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 III" by marquis de Astolphe Custine is a travel account published in 1843. The work chronicles Custine's journey through Russia from June to September 1839, visiting Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and other cities. Drawing on his aristocratic connections and meetings with Tsar Nicholas I, Custine presents Russia as a backward country governed by fear and violence. Though banned in Russia, the book achieved significant success across Europe and was later rediscovered during the Cold War for its prophetic insights. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27267 ER -