Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887

Name: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887
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ISBN: 9780195076219

ISBN-10: 0195076214

ISBN-13: 9780195076219

Edition: 1993

Authors: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt, Cathy Frierson

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From the rye field and the threshing barn to the local gentry and the village court, A.N. Engelgardt's Letters painted the most lively, entertaining, and insightful portrait of Imperial Russia's rural countryside. Now translated into English for the first time, judiciously abridged, and fully annotated for the modern reader, Engelgardt's account stands revealed both as a major primary source on nineteenth-century Russia and as an ever-more-timely analysis of a peasant culture in the wake of reform. A distinguished chemist at the St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute, Engelgardt was also an eloquent spokesman for liberty and reform, especially on behalf of Russia's peasant majority. Accused…

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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Glossary


Introduction






































Notes


Bibliographyof Related Works