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A journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev; translation by Leo Weiner is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. about?

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.

Author

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev; translation by Leo Weiner

Publisher

Cambridge: Harvard University Press

Published

1958

Language

EN

Subjects

Sociology, Travel, Social Science