Journey For Our Time: The Journals of the Marquis de Custine Russia 1839
by Astolphe de Custine
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Presents the penetrating and timeless observations from the Marquis's 1839 trip to Russia.Tags
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With an introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
The De Custine family was victim of the French Revolution. In his Foreword the Marquis tells:
"I went to Russia in search of arguments against representative government. I returned from Russia a partisan of constitutions"
The journal was put on the black list of forbidden publications by the Soviets.
The De Custine family was victim of the French Revolution. In his Foreword the Marquis tells:
"I went to Russia in search of arguments against representative government. I returned from Russia a partisan of constitutions"
The journal was put on the black list of forbidden publications by the Soviets.
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- Original publication date
- 1843
- People/Characters
- Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia; Romodanovsky
- Important places
- St. Petersburg, Russia; Yaroslavl; Moscow, Russia; Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
- Quotations
- The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen... (show all) to it become responsible.
A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything i... (show all)s done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''
"I came here to see a country, but what I find is a theater... The name are the same as everywhere else... In appearances everything happens as it does everywhere else. There is no difference except in the very foundation of ... (show all)things."
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Travel, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 914.7 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Europe Russia and neighbouring east European countries
- LCC
- DK25 .C9713 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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- 4
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