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The Divisive Modern Russian Tourist Abroad: Representations of Self and Other in the Early Reform Era
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017
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Taking methodological cues primarily from James Buzard's book The Beaten Track (1993), Susan Layton examines the socially divisive construction of the Russian tourist abroad in mainstream writings published in Russia between 1856 and 1863. It was during this early reform era that Russians first began publicly worrying about turisty and turizm as components of their national culture. The prism of divisiveness complicates a scholarly tendency to interpret the production of imperial Russian travel narratives as a nation-building enterprise from the eighteenth century onward. Although nationalist sentiments persisted in early reform public discourse concerning leisure travel, writers also fissured the nation along lines of social estate, gender, education, cultural competence, and moral values. Layton's comparative approach establishes parallels between snobbish nineteenth-century English and Russian views of ill-prepared “crowds” of tourists abroad but underlines Russian convictions that all Russian travel to western Europe should pursue educational and moral benefits.
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I wish to thank Mark D. Steinberg, Derek Offord, Andreas Schönle, and Diane P. Koenker for their stimulating comments.
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74. Born in Orenburg and raised in Uletskaia Zashchita, Mikhailov was the son of a Kirghiz princess and a Russian civil servant in the mining industry. A serf owned by a member of the Aksakov family, Mikhailov's paternal grandfather was beaten to death for protesting against his master's broken promise to give him his freedom. See P. Fateev, “Mikhail Illarionovich Mikhailov (1830-65),” in Mikhailov, Sochineniia, 2 vols. (Chita, 1950), l:v-ix.
75. Mikhailov's “Parizhskie pis'ma” appeared in six installments, Sovremennik (September-December 1858) and (January-February 1859); “Londonskie zametki” appeared in four installments, Sovremennik (June-September 1859).
76. Nekrasov had advised Mikhailov “to touch lightly on political affairs.” See Jennifer Lonergan, “M. L. Mikhailov and Russian Radical Ideas about Women, 1847-1865” (PhD diss., University of Bristol, 1995), 166.
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78. Mikhailov, “Parizhskie pis'ma,” Sovremennik (September 1858): pt. 1:269-71. Another user of the guidebook of Heinrich Reichard (1751-1828), Dostoevskii recommended buying it, in a letter to N. N. Strakhov, 26 June/8 July 1862, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 30 vols. (Leningrad, 1972-90), 28, bk. 2:26 and bk. 5:362.
79. Quote from Klioutchkine, “Between Sacrifice and Indulgence,” 48.
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84. Mikhailov, “Londonskie zametki,” Sovremennik (July and August 1859), reprinted in his Sochineniia, 3 vols. (Moscow, 1958), 3:340-41, 342-55.
85. Dobroliubov, “Iz Turina,” Sobranie sochinenii, 7:23.
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88. Frank, Joseph, Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (London, 1986), 62.Google Scholar See also Suslova, Diary, 6 September 1863, 215-16: Polina evokes there her sister Nadezhda's ascetic disapproval of traveling, particularly to Italy. Pursuing medical studies at the time, Nadezhda Suslova would become Russia's first woman doctor.
89. “Ot“ezzhaiushchim za granitsu,” in Dobroliubov, Sobranie sochinenii, 7:469. For exact publication data, see A. Maksimovich, “Nekrasov—uchastnik ‘Svistka,'” Literaturnoe nasledstvo 49-50 (1946): 319.
90. Quoted in N. A. Nekrasov, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem, 15 vols. (Leningrad, 1981-85), 2:362.
91. U., “Zametki o khoziaistvennom polozhenii Rossii,” Russkii vestnik 41 (September 1862): 239-41.
92. [Aksakov], “Iz Parizha,” 4. Aksakov misdates the source (cited just above), a mistake repeated in Dostoevskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 5:399.
93. F. M. Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatleniiakh, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 5:61. For an English translation, see Dostoevsky, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, trans. David Patterson (1988; reprint, Evanston, 1997). Subsequent quotes from this translation are sometimes amended. For an analysis of Dostoevskii's narrative as a post-Crimean War effort to reestablish “national self-respect” (199), consult Offord, Journeys to a Graveyard, 197-220.
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96. Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki, 5:51.
97. The scholarly literature has glossed over Dostoevskii's anxious self-description as a “mere tourist” (prostoi turist), too rushed to write properly about Paris: see his letter to N. N. Strakhov, 26 June/8 July 1862, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 28, bk. 2:27. Soviet commentary on this letter deleted “prostoi turist,” in ibid., 5:357.
98. Frank, Dostoevsky, 233-38, 247-48; and Pomerantsev, “Dostoevskii i literatura puteshestvii,” 94.
99. Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki, 5:46-47, 49-50.
100. Ibid., 5:63. Zimnie zametki calls the English alone “turisty” (and feminine turistki). Dostoevskii's persona designates himself a “modest traveler” (skromnyi puteshestvennik), mistranslated as “modest tourist.” See Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki, 5:76, and Dostoevsky, Winter Notes, 46.
101. Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki, 5:63.
102. Having an interview with Herzen was an honor. But by the late 1850s, he had become a Russian tourist attraction. Describing herself as the “custodian of a museum,” Nikolai Ogarev's wife showed “a multitude of Russians” the study, dining room, living room, and garden of Herzen's London mansion over the years. Shelgunova, Iz dalekogo proshlogo, 98. See also Gleason, Young Russia, 96-97.
103. Dostoevskii received advice from Turgenev before going abroad: Frank, Dostoevsky, 179. Favorable discussion of Fathers and Sons figures in Zimnie zametki, 5:59-60. Note also the similar descriptions of Russian tourists’ faces: tupoe nedoumen'e (blank perplexity, in Asya) and tupoe ozhidanie (blank expectation, in Zimnie zametki). See Turgenev, PSS, 7:75, and Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki, 5:63.
104. Dostoevskii, Zimnie zametki, 5:48.
105. Ibid., 5:48-49.
106. Ibid., 5:76-77.
107. Ibid., 5:69-70.
108. Ibid., 5:52.
109. Ibid., 5:69-70.
110. Ibid., 5:77.
111. [Aksakov], “Iz Parizha,” 3-4; and Kas'ianov [Ivan Aksakov], “Iz Parizha (Pis'mo II),“Den', no. 16 (10 April 1863): 1-3.
112. “Our tourists” in Dresden are described as an insipid lot in Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862), trans. Constance Garnett, rev. Ralph E. Matlaw (New York, 1966), 165. On former Russian serf owners as sex tourists in Paris, see Saltykov-Shchedrin, M. E., “Nasha obshchestvennaia zhizn': Podvigi russkikh ‘guliashchikh liudei’ za granitsei” (May 1863), Sobraniesochinenii, 20 vols. (Moscow, 1965-77), 6:99–109.Google Scholar
113. On official Soviet efforts to control the meanings and practice of tourism, see Koenker, “Travel to Work,” 658-59; and Gorsuch, Anne E., “'There's No Place Like Home': Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism,” Slavic Review 62, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 760-66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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115. McReynolds, “Prerevolutionary Russian Tourist,” 42.
116. On Leikin, see McReynolds, “Prerevolutionary Russian Tourist,” 17; and Steve Smith and Catriona Kelly, with additional material by Louise McReynolds, “Commercial Culture and Consumerism,” in Catriona Kelly and Shepherd, David, eds., Constructing Russian Culturein the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940 (Oxford, 1998), 121-23.Google Scholar
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