Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

by Sara Wheeler

Book Overview

ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR

With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides--Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others--Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nation­alities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524748013
• ISBN13: 9781524748012
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"