The Life of Fyodor Vasilyevich Ushakov with the Addition of Some of His Works

Alexander Radishchev is a Russian writer and revolutionary thinker whom Catherine II called “a rebel worse than Pugachev.” Bold and principled, he was arrested for “A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. The court issued a death sentence, but the empress replaced the execution with the stripping of ranks and noble status, along with exile to a Siberian prison. This book is an unusually powerful educational treatise, presented in the form of travel sketches: here, the precise impressions of an observer coexist with emotional lyrical digressions that draw the reader into empathy and reflection on what Russia is, where its good lies, and where evil begins.

The edition includes the most significant works by A. N. Radishchev: “The Life of Fyodor Vasilyevich Ushakov,” “Diary of One Week,” “Bova,” and others.