03180nam a22004815i 4500 978-1-4020-3909-6 DE-He213 20260521092101.0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2005 ne | s |||| 0|eng d 9781402039096 99781402039096 10.1007/1-4020-3909-3 doi 900 23 Offord, Derek. author. Journeys to a Graveyard [electronic resource] : Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing / by Derek Offord. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005. XXVI, 287 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 0066-6610 ; 192 Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary -- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys -- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller -- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands -- Botkin: Letters on Spain -- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy -- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions -- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border. Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity. HUMANITIES. LINGUISTICS. HISTORY. REGIONAL PLANNING. HUMANITIES / ARTS. HISTORY. LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE. REGIONAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES. INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9781402039089 International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 0066-6610 ; 192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3909-3 Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ZDB-2-SHU ddc ER 36586 36586 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-10-06 0 900 2025-10-06 08:45:02 2025-10-06 ER