The First Russian Political Emigre: Notes from Beyond the Grave, or Apologia Pro Vitamea
This memoir by Vladimir Pecherin (or Petcherine) (1807-85) is a story of the life of a rebel against any form of despotism. Shortly after his appointment as Professor of Classics at Moscow University. Pecherin fled from Russia in 1836 to pursue radical politics in Europe. He was the first Russian political emigrant. In 1840, he suddenly and unexpectedly converted to Catholicism and entered the Redemptorist Order as a monk. After 20 years of service as a missionary, he parted ways with the Redemptorists and for the last 23 years of his life served as a chaplain at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. Pecherin wrote the memoir during his time in Dubli…
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Weitere Autoren: Katz, Michael
- ISBN: 978-1-904558-93-4
- EAN: 9781904558934
- Produktnummer: 3726208
- Verlag: Univ College Dublin Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.8 cm 522 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 522
Über den Autor
Michael R. Katz is C. V. Starr Professor of Russian Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont Natalia Pervukhina-Kamyshnikova is Professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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