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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
Cover design: Katy Homans
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
v1.0
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