Author: GALLENGA, Antonio
Title: Un viaggio estivo in Russia.
Description: Parma: Battei, 1883. 8vo. xvii, 431p. Cream paper-covered boards, red leather spine title. Spine sunned and with slight wear at joints. Original illustrated wrappers (slightly worn at edges) and three pages of publisher's adverts on pink paper bound in. Half title and verso of front printed wrapper stained. Inscription in ink on half title "All' On. Direzione della Gazzetta d'Italia, Firenze, Parma 12 Maggio 1883". **** The author was born in Parma in 1812 and died at Chepstow in England in 1895. Because of his support for revolutionary movements, Gallenga spent much of his life outside his native Italy. In his later years he acted as correspondent for the London Times and reported on Garibaldi's campaign of 1860, on the American Civil War, and on the Franco-Prussian War. Gallenga toured Russia in the summer of 1881 visiting St. Petersburg, Moscow, the Volga region, the Caucasus and the Crimea. In 1882 he published, in English, 'A summer tour in Russia', recording his observations particularly of the economic and social life of the country. Cf. Nerhood, 344. No Italian edition in NUC or BL.

Keywords: Russia, travel, antiquarian, Slavonic


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