Journeys to a Graveyard : Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing / by Derek Offord

Englisch

Dordrecht : Springer, 2005

Online-Ressource : v.: digital

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4020-3909-6

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-4020-3908-9 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3909-3

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

*Russland / Reisebericht / Westeuropabild

*History ; Humanities ; Linguistics ; Regional planning

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PG3091.9.T73

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 914.045;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: KI 1931: K Slawistik / KG-KK Russische Sprache und Literatur / KI Russische Literatur: Puskinzeit bis 1917 / KI 1300-KI 2340 Literaturgeschichte / KI 1920-KI 1931 Stoff- und Motivgeschichte mit Emblematik / Einzelne Stoffe und Motive

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' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.

 

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