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Journeys to a Graveyard

Journeys to a Graveyard

Derek Offord

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2010
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Historia
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9789048169948
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Acknowledgements.- Note on dates, transliteration, names, references and translation.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary.- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys.- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller.- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands.- Botkin: Letters on Spain.- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy.- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions.- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index of names and subjects.- Index of place-names.

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