Prince Serebrenny
12 hrs. 54 min.
Description
“For Gogol, travel by long stretches was already, as it were, the beginning of a plan that he intended to carry out later. He wanted to make a journey across all of Russia, from monastery to monastery, traveling along back roads and stopping to rest at the homes of landowners. First of all, he needed this in order to see the most picturesque places in the state, which, for the most part, were chosen by ancient Russian people for founding monasteries; secondly, to study the backroads of the Russian realm and the life of peasants and landowners in all its variety; and thirdly, finally, to write a geographical work about Russia in the most captivating way. He wanted to write it so that “the connection between a person and the soil on which he was born” would be audible…”
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