A journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
By: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev ; translation by Leo Wiener ; edited with an introd. and notes by Roderick Page Thaler.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Serfdom -- Russia.; Soviet Union -- Description and travel; Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 253-255.

Includes index.