Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu - Radishchev Aleksandr Nikolaevich

"Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow" is conventionally called a story, but it is not - in fact it is a kind of journalistic variation on the theme of the genre of "sentimental travel" beloved at the end of the 18th century - travel notes, concentrated not so much on the real impressions of the traveler, as on his thoughts and feelings about what he saw. And what happened to See Radishcheva in cities, villages and postal stations, where the writer stopped on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, turned his book into an angry and tragic remiss to Russian serfdom in all its ugliness and cruelty.