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Book of the Month, April 2009
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople
Elizabeth Craven
London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789
[M.S. Anderson] 1789 - Craven
Estranged from her husband following infidelity on both sides, Lady Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828) travelled extensively in France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece and Turkey between 1783 and 1786. During that time she wrote to the margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth who was to become her second husband (two days after she learned of the death of her first spouse). Horace Walpole (1717–1797) suggested in 1787 that she publish an account of her travels. A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople was the result. It was not only Lady Craven’s most important work but also a popular one: the second edition was published in the same year as the first, as were a Dublin edition and a French translation, and an English version was published in Vienna in 1800. An extended edition appeared in 1814. The work describes manners, customs and places, with her activities and opinions.
This copy is one of four editions from the M. S. Anderson Collection of Writings on Russia Printed Between 1526 and 1917, a collection of works pertaining to foreign perceptions of Russia to the period of the Russian Revolution.
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