Czar, East and Civilization: Russian Empire in Edna Dean Proctor’s Travelogue
Journal: Przegląd Rusycystyczny
Year: 2022

American writer Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923), known as a poet and a progressive social activist, published her travelogue back in 1871, hot on the trail of her extensive tour of the countries of Western Europe and the Holy Land, including the Russian Empire. A Russian Journey was reprinted in America several times, and by the 1890 reprint, which has served as the material for this paper. The purpose of the study is to reveal the peculiarities of the image of Russia in the female traveler vision