by N. M. Karamzin, Leon Stilman, Florence Jonas · Columbia University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780231918060
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«Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790» is the travel book by N. M. Karamzin, published by Columbia University Press in hardcover (364 pages).
The volume brings together the letters Karamzin wrote during his 1789-1790 journey through Germany, Switzerland, France and England. In them he portrays landscapes, cities, people and customs, and reveals the ideas and attitudes of the era through the eyes of a young Russian gentleman.
Originally published in 1957; English edition, translated by Florence Jonas with an introduction by Leon Stilman.
A work of interest to readers of European history, travel literature and eighteenth-century epistolaries.
