Studies in Russia (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)
Augustus J. C. Hare
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Forgotten Books
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1330274768
ISBN-13
9781330274767
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Excerpt from Studies in Russia
'A foreigner must spend two years in our country before he can judge of it,' say the Russians, and the author of the following chapters feels bound to confess at the outset that he has only passed one summer there. He would not have ventured to write, much less to publish, anything he had written about it, if it were not that, when he was in the country, he had himself felt intensely the want of such assistance as may be found in this volume. Few English travellers know Russian enough to enable them to ask questions or to understand verbal information ; the meagre existing English handbooks give a useful catalogue of the sights in the principal towns, but scarcely any information as to their meaning or history; and much thus passes unobserved or misunderstood which might lend a great charm to the usual monotony of a Russian tour.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
'A foreigner must spend two years in our country before he can judge of it,' say the Russians, and the author of the following chapters feels bound to confess at the outset that he has only passed one summer there. He would not have ventured to write, much less to publish, anything he had written about it, if it were not that, when he was in the country, he had himself felt intensely the want of such assistance as may be found in this volume. Few English travellers know Russian enough to enable them to ask questions or to understand verbal information ; the meagre existing English handbooks give a useful catalogue of the sights in the principal towns, but scarcely any information as to their meaning or history; and much thus passes unobserved or misunderstood which might lend a great charm to the usual monotony of a Russian tour.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
