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Letters From Russia
Astolphe de Custine
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1843
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 650
He crossed the frontier hoping to be persuaded. Custine, whose father and grandfather had both gone to the guillotine, came to Nicholas I's empire looking for proof that a throne was safer than a parliament, and found a country where courtesy is a form of fear and every face is a mask held in place at the Tsar's pleasure.
I went to Russia to seek for arguments against representative government, I return a partisan of constitutions.
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