THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE
Book Details + Condition: Methuen and Co. Ltd. (London). Second Edition, 1911. Very scarce. Hardcover with fine binding; marbled boards and endpapers, and leather binding with raised bands. 358 pages with Index. Illustrated with colored fold-out maps. Author Maurice Baring Maurice Baring OBE was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent, with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. His book THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE explore's Russia's vast landscape, vibrant culture (Orthodox Church, arts, literature), social classes (aristocracy, peasantry), and political shifts. Baring offers keen observations, travel sketches (like the Volga), and short stories, revealing the complexities and enduring spirit of Russians during a transformative era. Chapters include:
- Physical Characteristics and Climate
- What Russia Looks Like
- The Russian Character
- Some Manners and Customs Particular to Russia
- The Beginnings of Russian History
- The Tartar Invasion
- The Rise of Moscow
- The First Tsars and the Boyars
- Land Tenure in Russia in the 15th and 16th Centuries: The Rise of Serfdom
- The Rivalry with Poland
- Peter the Great: His Character and His Life
- Peter the Great's Reforms
- The Epoch of Catherine II
- Alexander I: The Decembrists
- Pushkin
- The Emancipation of the Serfs
- The Consequence of Emancipation: The Mir, Zemstvo, Nihilism, Literature
- The Revolutionary Movement and its Course
- The Revolutionary Movement its Positive and Negative Results
- The Orthodox Eastern Church and the Russian Church
- Religion in Russia
A beautiful copy of a very rare work, with firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; a bit of wear to edges of spine ends; chip to corner of first blank page (original ffep); toning to pages, with light foxing to last few pages; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
