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Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions supplied via 8 Russian writers of trips made to western eu international locations among 1697 and 1880. The descriptions show the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and highbrow elites in this interval. The travelers' perceptions of western ecu international locations are taken care of right here as an ambivalent reaction to a civilization with which Russia was once belatedly getting into shut touch as a result of imperial ambition of the Russian country and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travelers perceived the main complex eu nations as more advantageous to Russia by way of fabric fulfillment and the adulthood and refinement in their cultures, yet additionally they promoted a view of Russia as in different respects enhanced to the western countries. seriously motivated from the overdue eighteenth century through Romanticism and via the increase of nationalism within the west, they tended to depict ecu civilization as moribund. by means of this suggests they controlled to outline their very own emergent state in a contrastive approach as having formative years and promising futurity.

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Chertkov, Vospominaniia o Sitsilii, 2 Vols. (Moscow: Tipografiia A. Semiona, 1835-1836); Vladimir Stroev, Parizh v 1838 i 1839 godakh . , 2 Vols. (St. Petersburg: Tipografiia A. Iogansona, 1842); A. Levshin, Progulki Russkogo v Pompei (St. Petersburg: Tipografiia P. P. Bocharova, 1843); M. Zh-k-va [M. S. Zhukova], Ocherki Iuzhnoi Frantsii i Nitstsy. Iz dorozhnykh zapisok 1840 i 1842 godov, 2 Vols. (St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo A. Ivanova, 1844). 81 See Wayne Dowler, An Unnecessary Man: The Life of Apollon Grigor'ev (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1995; hereafter Dowler, An Unnecessary Man), pp.

Nor did the appetite for accounts of foreign journeys diminish after the Crimean War, when cultural and intellectual life was reinvigorated, more clearly defined political positions were taken up and the subject of national identity remained topical. 84 When the reforming zeal of Alexander’s government was spent, as it was by the middle of the 1860s, and while a revolutionary movement intent on the establishment of a Russian form of socialism was developing, the account of the foreign journey was overshadowed for a while by the radical intelligentsia’s preoccupation with the Russian narod, which resembled another unknown people.

440-499. See Ivashina, p. 11, for further examples. 51 Vladimirka i Kliaz'ma, in V. A. Sleptsov, Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo “Khudozhestvennaia literatura,” 1970), pp. 29-151. 49 50 16 Introduction Russia (1869), which helped to motivate the young men and women who were to undertake the ill-fated “going to the people” in 1874. 53 In addition to such largely non-fictional but at the same time literary or polemical accounts of internal travel Russians themselves began in the nineteenth century to produce guide-books54 and a rich stock of ethnographic material on various nationalities within the Empire.

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