Breaking Ground
Subtitle: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 45) (Studies in Slavic Literature & Poetics)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Published: May 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789042019492
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russian & Former Soviet Union
First sentence: Throughout the eighteenth century, Russians sought to imitate the Western practice of leisured touring together with the literary forms to describe it.