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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Name: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Author: David Patterson
ISBN: 9780810108134

by David Patterson

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Overview

In June 1862 Fyodor Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, Dostoevsky also wished to see firsthand 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. He recorded his impressions of everything he saw, and published them as "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions" in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical he edited.

About the Author, David Patterson

Fyodor Dostoevsky (18211881) is the author of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and Notes from Underground, often described as a founding work of existentialism.