TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
AU  - FitzLyon, Kyril
TI  - Winter notes on summer impressions
SN  - 9781847496188
AV  - PG3328  .A183 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Alma Classics
KW  - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
KW  - Europe
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Russian literature
N2  - In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan and Vienna.

His record of the trip, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions – first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya, the periodical he edited – is the chrysalis out of which many elements of his later masterpieces developed
ER  -