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Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow

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Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow
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"Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow" is divided into chapters named after the cities and stations visited (Chudovo, Veliky Novgorod, Valdai, Vyshny Volochok, Torzhok, Chernaya Gryaz, and others), and reveals the plight of ordinary people through stories the protagonist hears from his fellow travelers. Peasant poverty, censorship, corruption, the cruelty and indifference of officials—it's endless...

Alexander Radishchev anonymously published the book in his own printing house in 1790, but after Catherine the Great read a copy, he was arrested and exiled for criticizing serfdom and autocracy.

The dog Cerberus on the cover is an image from the epigraph: "A monster with a thick, mischievous, enormous, hundred-mouthed, and barking," taken from Trediakovsky's poem. Radishchev himself changed "thrice-mouthed" to "hundred-mouthed" to emphasize the meaning. This hellish dog, the guardian of the underworld, became a metaphor for the vices of Russia, against which the entire work is directed.
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