How the status of Russian writers as members of the nobility, and their careers in service to the imperial state, shaped the course of Russian literature from S

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 191

Part two of a collection of David Satter's articles and essays about Russia.

Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the history of

The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine s