The Storm

By: Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich

Up to the years of the Crimean War Russia was always a strange, uncouth riddle to the European consciousness. It would be an interesting study to trace back through the last three centuries the evidence of the historical documents that our forefathers have left us when they were brought face to face, through missions, embassies, travel, and commerce, with the fantastic life, as it seemed to them, led by the Muscovite. But in any chance record we may pick up, from the reports of a seventeenth century embassy down to the narrative of an early nineteenth century traveller, the note always insisted on is that of all the outlandish civilisations, queer manners and customs of Europeans, the Russian's were the queerest and those standing furthest removed from the other nations'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J5954KJ
• ISBN13: 9798684565236
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"