An Englishman's impressions of the character and customs of Russians and his detailed description of Moscow at the beginning of the 19th century
An Englishman's impressions of the character and customs of Russians and his detailed description of Moscow at the beginning of the 19th century
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Robert Lyell (1790–1831) was a Scottish surgeon, MD, naturalist, botanist and traveler. From April to August 1822 he traveled to Russia and its southern provinces, and later in England published two books, which reflected his life experience and impressions of Russia, the mores and customs of its people. The Englishman’s Journey through Russia, Crimea, Caucasus and Georgia in the XIX century was recently published in our publishing house, and this is the second book.
200 years have passed since Robert Lyell, without even saying goodbye to his friends, left Russia for his homeland, in fact fled because of the persecution he expected. For what? Not so much for criticizing Russian reality in his diaries, but for public, in salons, frank statements about the Russian order and mores. He led all the years of his life in Russia from 1815 to 1823, where he was the personal physician of some aristocrats and the longest-serving Countess Anna Orlova-Chesmenskaya, at that time the richest woman in the country. Lyell rotated in high society, made high-ranking friends (one of them advised him to leave urgently).
Its text is contradictory, but it gives a good idea of how Moscow lived in the first third of the nineteenth century, and how different we are, people from Europe and Russians. And, perhaps, about the origins of today’s various ideas about each other.
The book is equipped with rare engravings and drawings of the early XIX century.
200 years have passed since Robert Lyell, without even saying goodbye to his friends, left Russia for his homeland, in fact fled because of the persecution he expected. For what? Not so much for criticizing Russian reality in his diaries, but for public, in salons, frank statements about the Russian order and mores. He led all the years of his life in Russia from 1815 to 1823, where he was the personal physician of some aristocrats and the longest-serving Countess Anna Orlova-Chesmenskaya, at that time the richest woman in the country. Lyell rotated in high society, made high-ranking friends (one of them advised him to leave urgently).
Its text is contradictory, but it gives a good idea of how Moscow lived in the first third of the nineteenth century, and how different we are, people from Europe and Russians. And, perhaps, about the origins of today’s various ideas about each other.
The book is equipped with rare engravings and drawings of the early XIX century.
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