Russian Rambles
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Passports, shopping, city streets and household customs give Isabel Florence Hapgood her material for these sketches of Russia. Writing from personal experience, she sets out to correct foreign accounts that turn ordinary Russian life into something strange or sensational. Her preface tests such stories against practical details, from church music to the usefulness of guides. The chapters range across St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Volga, with space for bargaining, censorship and a summer resort.
Encounters with Count Tolstoy add a more reflective strand. Her account discusses his interest in pilgrims' speech, his observance of religious practices and his objections to prayers for an army's success. Hapgood weighs these ideas in a conversational, sometimes argumentative voice.
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Book facts
- Author
- Isabel Florence Hapgood
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online