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Cover image: Cover illustration: Natalia Gontcharova, set for The Firebird; Diaghilev Ballet, 1926; Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library, London

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790–1857.

  [Russie en 1839. English]

  Letters from Russia / Astolphe de Custine ; edited and with an introduction by Anka Muhlstein.

    p. cm.

ISBN 0-940322-81-1 (Paperback : alk. paper)

1. Russia—Description and travel. 2. Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790–1857—Journeys—Russia. 3. National characteristics, Russian. I. Muhlstein, Anka. II. Title.

  DK25 .C9713 2002

  947'.073—dc21

2001006477

eISBN 978-1-59017-534-7
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