Mud and stars : travels in Russia with Pushkin and other geniuses of the Golden Age
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London : Jonathan Cape, [2019].
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xv, 287 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Curry Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction | 914.7 WHE | Available |
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Authors, Russian -- 19th century -- Biography
Biographies
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, -- 1809-1852
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, -- 1809-1852 -- Homes and haunts
Literary landmarks -- Russia (Federation)
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, -- 1799-1837
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, -- 1799-1837 -- Homes and haunts.
Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910
Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910 -- Homes and haunts.
Travel writing.
Travel.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, -- 1818-1883
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, -- 1818-1883 -- Homes and haunts.
Biographies
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, -- 1809-1852
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, -- 1809-1852 -- Homes and haunts
Literary landmarks -- Russia (Federation)
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, -- 1799-1837
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, -- 1799-1837 -- Homes and haunts.
Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910
Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910 -- Homes and haunts.
Travel writing.
Travel.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, -- 1818-1883
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, -- 1818-1883 -- Homes and haunts.
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Published
London : Jonathan Cape, [2019].
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Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.
Description
There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is its emotional, literary counterpart. In Mud and Stars, award-winning writer Sara Wheeler sets out to explore both. With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels across eight time zones, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. She follows nineteenth-century footsteps to make connections between then and now- between the places where flashing-epauletted Lermontov died in the aromatic air of Pyatigorsk, and sheaves of corn still stand like soldiers on a blazing afternoon, just like in Gogol's stories. On the Trans-Siberian railway in winter she crunches across snowy platforms to buy dried fish from babushki, and in summer she sails the Black Sea where dolphins leapt in front of violet Abkhazian peaks. She also spends months in fourth-floor 1950s apartments, watching television with her hosts, her new friends bent over devices and moaning about Ukraine. At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news - a Russia of humanity and daily struggles. She gives voice to the 'ordinary' people of Russia, and discovers how the writers of the Golden Age continue to represent their country today.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wheeler, S. (2019). Mud and stars: travels in Russia with Pushkin and other geniuses of the Golden Age . Jonathan Cape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wheeler, Sara. 2019. Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia With Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age. Jonathan Cape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wheeler, Sara. Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia With Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age Jonathan Cape, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wheeler, Sara. Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia With Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age Jonathan Cape, 2019.
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