Imperial Southwest in P. A. Krushevan's Travelogue “What is Russia?”
Journal: Nauchnyi Dialog
Year: 2025

This article examines P. A. Krushevan's travelogue “What is Russia?” (1896) within the context of imperial perceptions of the Southwestern fringes of the Russian Empire. The relevance of this study lies in the necessity to explore the mechanisms of imperial policy and nationalist discourse in travel writing as instruments for shaping ideological views on space and population. The paper investigates Krushevan's journey, his concept of unifying nationalism, and the imagological strategies employed