A Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow
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Contributions
- Roderick Page Thaler (Editor) - Contributor
- Leo Wiener (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
1969 - Harvard University Press
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11125535M
- Internet Archivejourneyfromstpet0000unse_y6a7
- ISBN-100674485505
- ISBN-139780674485501
- LibraryThing1775262
and 1 more
- Better World Books9780674485501
Classifications
- DDC309.147
Description
Primarily an attack on serfdom and an appeal to the serfs voluntarily, Aleksandr Radishchv's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow has often been described as a Russian Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published in 1790, the book was banned immediately and the author first sentenced to death, then banished to eastern Siberia. On the order of the Empress Catherine II, who read the Journey very carefully, all copies that could be found were collected and burned. The few that escaped were widely circulated and laboriously copied out by hand, but the book was not freely published in Russia until 1905.
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