Prince Serebryany
11 hrs. 50 min.
Description
«For Gogol, a long journey was already as if the beginning of a plan that he intended to carry out later. He wanted to travel all across Russia—from monastery to monastery—riding along country lanes and stopping to rest with local landowners. This was necessary for him, first of all, to see the most picturesque places in the state, which for the most part were chosen by old Russian people for founding monasteries; second, to study the country lanes of the Russian realm and the lives of peasants and landowners in all their variety; and 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… [could] be heard”…»
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