Essays on modern Italy

Mikhail Andreevich Osorgin (nast. Surname Ilyin, 1878-1942)-writer, journalist, one of the figures of Russian emigration. Born in Perm, graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, dealt with law. He participated in the Moscow armed uprising of 1905, was arrested, and having left in 1906 to freedom, went abroad, lived in France and Italy. From 1907 to 1916 he kept a diary, where he recorded his Italian impressions, and also worked as a journalist in the publications "Bulletin of Europe" and "Russian Vedomosti". Part of his correspondence entered the book "Essays on Modern Italy", which was published in 1913.
"Essays" are permeated by Osorgin"s love to the country where he lived the "best years of youth", as the writer himself noted. The book covers many problems of Italy in the early twentieth century, social, political and economic issues (medicine, education, unemployment, the life of peasants and urban residents, Italian camorra), a significant part of the "essays" is devoted to Rome, as well as issues of Italian literature and art.
This publication comes out with the preface and comments of the philologist, translator Anna Vladislavovna Yampolskaya (Moscow)