Journey to the Land of Ophir

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Also known as: “Puteshestvie v Zemlyu Ofirskuyu”

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In Mikhayl Mikhaylovich Shcherbatov
…state is embodied in his Journey to the Land of Ophir (1784), a utopian fantasy depicting a Russia in which Peter I’s westernizing reforms have been reversed, and the nobility and the serfs are confirmed in what Shcherbatov viewed as their “natural” (and inherently unequal) relations to each other. His…
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