A Journey to Arzrum

A Journey to Arzrum (full title A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829) is a book of travel notes written by Alexander Pushkin first published in 1830 after his travels to Southern Russia and the Caucasus. Unlike some of his other prose, it has gone mostly unacknowledged by many of his readers.[1] The book follows Pushkin's journey to Tiflis with a company of dragoons. Though Pushkin is not unsympathetic to the different peoples he witnesses on his journey, some of the commentary in his book has been regarded as Orientalist in its presumption of Russian superiority over the peoples being colonized.[2] The 19th century witnessed the expansion of the Russian Empire into Asia through the conquest and colonization of various Central Asian tribes.

References

  1. ↑ Two Hundred Years of Pushkin, Vol. 3, p.89
  2. ↑ Thompson, Ewa. "Pushkin's Journey and Russian Colonialism". Retrieved 6 December 2015.
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