Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву: Очерки. Стихотворения

by Aleksandr Radishchev, Александр Радищев

Aleksandr Radishhev - russkij literator- revolyucioner, po vyrazheniyu Ekateriny II, buntovshhik xuzhe Pugacheva ,?- pisatel glubokij i smelyj. Za knigu Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu Radishheva posadili v Petropavlovskuyu krepost. Sud prigovoril ego k smertnoj kazni, kotoruyu imperatrica zamenila lisheniem chinov i dvoryanstva i ssylkoj v sibirskij ostrog. Eta kniga - redchajshij po sile prosvetitelskij traktat, napisannyj v vide putevyx ocherkov, gde i tochnye nablyudeniya puteshestvennika, i vdoxnovennye liricheskie otstupleniya uvlekayut chitatelya k soperezhivaniyu i sorazmyshleniyu#58; chto est Rossiya, chto dlya nee blago i chto zlo. V knigu voshli naibolee znachitelnye proizvedeniya A. N. Radishheva#58; ZHitie Fedora Vasilevicha Ushakova , Dnevnik odnoj nedeli , Bova i drugie.

501 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Radishchev, was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature to prominence with the publication in 1790 of his A Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. His depiction of socio-economic conditions in Russia earned him exile to Siberia until 1797.