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A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

work by Radishchev

Also known as: “Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu”

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In Aleksandr Nikolayevich Radishchev
…iz Peterburga v Moskvu (1790; A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow), in which he collected, within the framework of an imaginary journey, all the examples of social injustice, wretchedness, and brutality he had seen. Though the book was an indictment of serfdom, autocracy, and censorship, Radishchev intended it for…
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Russian society and literature

In Russia: Education and social change in the 18th century
in 1790 of Aleksandr Radishchev’s A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. In it Radishchev depicted social conditions as he saw them, particularly the dehumanization of the serfs and the corruption of their masters, warning that these threatened the stability of the existing order. Incensed by the book, Catherine had…
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