The Swiss cantons played a special role in Russian history: Russian aristocrats studied here and admired the views of the kings, revolutionaries hatched plans for a coup, and writers — Dostoevsky, Voloshin, Nabokov created …
The Swiss cantons played a special role in Russian history: Russian aristocrats studied here and admired the views of the kings, revolutionaries hatched plans for a coup, and writers — Dostoevsky, Voloshin, Nabokov created … In this picturesque region, like in a drop of water, the main features of Russian society were most fully embodied the last two centuries. Exploring the “Russian-Swiss microcosm”, Mikhail Shishkin, a long-time resident of Switzerland and one of the brightest modern prose writers, sheds light not only on our past, but also interprets the processes taking place in the Russian intellectual environment today.
Vagrius, 656 p.