Journey From St. PetersburgA fascinatingly many-sided personality ... Vadim Bytensky retains the broadly arching interests of the traditional Russian intellectual ... a man with a broad and devoted knowledge of world literature, music, philosophy, and politics that constantly illuminate his traveler’s observations.”
“Bytensky emerges ... as a well-rounded and harmonious personality, who combines sober reasoning with a romantic enthusiasm, a sentimental attachment to an old cultural inheritance, and an open, if sometimes skeptical and critical, curiosity about things new.” |
Contents
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Rudy | 15 |
The Wood Grouse A Story | 21 |
First Encounter with China | 43 |
Moscow in Manila | 85 |
Two Friends | 121 |
Robert Knowlton | 141 |
Saigon | 147 |
The Elliots | 155 |
Return to Russia | 177 |
The Daily Round of Business | 201 |
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