Seven Britons in Imperial Russia, 1698-1812 (Princeton Studies in History, Volume 7)

xxxiv, 424 pp. "A book on Russia which furnishes more light than heat is especially welcome and valuable today in view of the long and cold war in progress. Such a book is this critical anthology selected from the accounts of seven British travelers in Russia between 1698 and 1812. A careful reading of this book will enlighten considerably the reader's understanding and comprehension of the mighty problem facing the world today in trying to live at peace with Russia, still Asiatic, still barbarous, and still unsympathetic and ignorant of tour Western conception of liberty freedom and democracy."