Prince Serebryany
13 hrs. 55 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Tolstoy Alexei
Author
Tolstoy Alexei
Narrator
Ivan Mezhitkhanov
Narrator
Ivan Mezhitkhanov
Description
“Gogol’s Journey on long legs was, for him, as it were the beginning of a plan he intended to carry out later. He wanted to travel through all of Russia, from monastery to monastery, driving along back roads and stopping to rest with landowners. First of all, he needed this in order to see the most picturesque places in the state—places for the most part chosen by old Russian people to found monasteries. Second, to study the back roads of the Russian realm and the life of peasants and landowners in all its variety. Thirdly, finally, to write a geographical work about Russia in the most fascinating way. He wanted to write it so that ‘the connection of a person with the soil on which he was born would be audible’… ”
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