Gentlemen Jack in Russia. Anna Lister"s incredible journey

The new book of Olga Khoroshilova (author of historical books "Russian Travei", "Fashion and Genius"), dedicated to the journey through Russia of the eccentric English miss, eminent scientist and traveler. Anna Lister is called "gentleman Jack."

From the fall of 1839 to the summer of 1840, Anna Lister spun almost all of Western and Central Russia, was in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Astrakhan. In the spring and summer of 1840, she traveled to the Caucasus, where Anna Lister died suddenly.

During the trip, Lister met and made friends with many famous Russian aristocrats - Golitsyn, Pannin, Tolstoy, Pushchin, Trubetskiy ... A passionate but Platonic novel connected her with Venus, the famous beauty Sofia Radziwill, which Pushkin was in love with Pushkin in love with . The reverent encrypted pages of the Lister’s diary, as well as letters, are devoted to her.

Russian diary of Anna Lister - just a storehouse of valuable information - from Russian balls and dishes to descriptions of nature, people, market prices, etc. There is one problem - it was written by ciphers and aigerly in two languages ​​and has not yet been deciphered or published. Olga Khoroshilova mastered the catering and ciphers of Anna, and also found unpublished Russian letters Lister (in French) from our most famous aristocrats stored in British and Russian archives, and wrote on their basis an amazing book in the genre of historical novel.

The book contains many illustrations, including Anna Lister"s drawings