Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; along the Southern Shores of the Baltic

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Author: Robert Johnston (1783-1839) Year: 1816 Publisher: David Longworth Place: New York Description: 402 pages with appendix. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in black leather with black and red label with gilt lettering to labels, marbled end papers. (Catalogue Russica J557) First American edition, first published in London a year earlier. Johnston traveled from Danzig to Berlin in 1814, after two decades of Napoleonic Wars in Europe. His account takes the elitist/upper class English view of Eastern Europe. He provides descriptions of villages and cities, many completely devastated by war, as well as people and their arts. He points out the traditions of minorities, especially the Jews of Poland and Lithuania. Interesting insight into the English view of the continent two hundred years ago.. "Robert Johnston attended college in Aberdeen, Scotland, before setting out on an extensive European tour during the years 1812 to 1814 which included travel in Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Poland, and Ireland. In 1815 Johnston published an account and accompanying sketches documenting his time in Russia. Following his travels, Robert Johnston returned to Jamaica to claim his share of his father's estate...Johnston's land holdings increased in 1818, when he married Catherine Cole Taylor, the only child of local plantation owner John Taylor and his wife, Comfort Ann Hind Taylor...The Johnstons finally relocated to Rhode Island when, in 1833, the imperial Britis

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