I found the title of the book my father handed to me: Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia by Astolphe de Custine. I have ordered a copy from Thrift books as a backup. The blurb for the book reads: "A major historical and political book in its 150th anniversary year. The Marquis de Custine's insights into mid-19th century…
I found the title of the book my father handed to me: Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia by Astolphe de Custine. I have ordered a copy from Thrift books as a backup. The blurb for the book reads: "A major historical and political book in its 150th anniversary year. The Marquis de Custine's insights into mid-19th century Russia offer a deeper understanding of contemporary Soviet society and show what can and cannot be expected from the empire of the czar." Maybe it's like de Tocqueville's journey through America in a similar time period. I have never forgotten that my father wanted me to read it.
Never to late to catch up with good read you've stacked but been, decades or even a half-life getting back to Elizabeth.
I built up quite a helpful, eclectic selection of books during a shortish period, starting back in October 1992, when I was involved in a project to set up a Western-model management development programme with an institution in Moscow. It got broken up for lack of bookshelf space some time after my involvement involvement in the Moscow project ended. Thankfully some 'choice' I have retained but a problem remains: which box in stacked boxes of books that are in need of sorting now are they in? Enjoy reading Astolphe de Cuistine (not an author or book I've come across), and thinking here and there, I'm sure, of things your father said.
I found the title of the book my father handed to me: Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia by Astolphe de Custine. I have ordered a copy from Thrift books as a backup. The blurb for the book reads: "A major historical and political book in its 150th anniversary year. The Marquis de Custine's insights into mid-19th century Russia offer a deeper understanding of contemporary Soviet society and show what can and cannot be expected from the empire of the czar." Maybe it's like de Tocqueville's journey through America in a similar time period. I have never forgotten that my father wanted me to read it.
Never to late to catch up with good read you've stacked but been, decades or even a half-life getting back to Elizabeth.
I built up quite a helpful, eclectic selection of books during a shortish period, starting back in October 1992, when I was involved in a project to set up a Western-model management development programme with an institution in Moscow. It got broken up for lack of bookshelf space some time after my involvement involvement in the Moscow project ended. Thankfully some 'choice' I have retained but a problem remains: which box in stacked boxes of books that are in need of sorting now are they in? Enjoy reading Astolphe de Cuistine (not an author or book I've come across), and thinking here and there, I'm sure, of things your father said.