Russian essays and stories
By: by Maurice Baring
Publisher: Methuen & co.
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Social life and customs
Notes: "The essays and stories contained in this book are reprinted for the greater part from the ̓Morning post.'"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: A journey in the north.; title: Down the Volga.; title: Sketches in central and south Russia: The religion of Russian peasants; A conversation with a landowner; The birth of the bell.; title: Conversations with Dimitri Nikolaievitch: English liberals in Russia; Byron.; title: Modern literature in Russia.; title: The Russian stage.; title: A Russian mystery play.; title: A dream in the Duma.; title: A Zemstvo report.; title: Anti-Semitism in Russia.; title: Prince Ourousov's memoirs.; title: Stories: Pogrom. The antichrist. "Dirge in marriage." The governor's niece. A police officer. The amorphists. Sherlock Holmes in Russia.