Essays on Russian History and Russian Literature: Public Lectures Read in America

Before the reader, the book of an outstanding figure of Russian abroad, theater director and critic S.M. Volkonsky, which is the text of lectures that he read at various Universities in the United States. These lectures were devoted to Russian history and literature, and the author’s goal was to primarily interest the American listener, to show him the best aspects of the Russian folk soul in the creations of domestic poets and writers.

The book is recommended for historians, literary scholars, culturalists, social scholars, philosophers, as well as a wide circle of readers who are fond of the history of Russia and its classical literature, who are indifferent to the problems of our Fatherland