TY  - BOOK
AU  - Custine,Astolphe,marquis de
TI  - La Russie en 1839, Volume IV
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 2008-11-28; 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 IV" by marquis de Astolphe Custine is a travel account published in 1843. After journeying through Russia in 1839, meeting Tsar Nicholas I and other prominent figures, Custine portrays the country as backward and governed by fear and violence. His critical observations of the tsarist regime caused outrage in Saint Petersburg, leading to the book's ban in Russia. The work gained renewed attention during the Cold War when parallels were drawn between imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27345
ER  -