Mud and stars : travels in Russia with Pushkin and other geniuses of the Golden Age
Wheeler, Sara2019
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With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels across eight time zones, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. She follows 19th-century footsteps to make connections between then and now: between the places where flashing-epauletted Lermontov died in the aromatic air of Pyatigorsk, and sheaves of corn still stand like soldiers on a blazing afternoon, just like in Gogol's stories.
Main title:
Author:
Wheeler, Sara, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2019.
Collation:
xv, 287 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780224098014 (hbk)
Dewey class:
914.704864
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2828301