Journeys to a Graveyard Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing /

• Main Author: Offord, Derek (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées, 192
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Tourism.; Management.; History.; Philology.; Language and Literature.; History, general.; Tourism Management.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' pe...