Traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Radishchev A.N.

Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev (1749-1802)-the great Russian prose writer and the poet, also famous for the participation in the commission on the drawing up of laws under Alexander I. First of all, contemporaries appreciated the soul in Radishchev and only then the writer's gift. I.M. Born said about him: “He loved truth and virtue. His fiery philanthropy longed to illuminate all his meetings with a symptom of eternity with an immense ray of eternity. ”

The writer gained particular fame after publication in 1790 without indicating the name of the story“ Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow ”. The work is written according to the canons of the genre of a sentimental trip, which was popular in Europe in those years. Only thanks to the form it was passed into print, while the chapters contained the thoughts of Radishchev about the social structure of Russia, criticism of autocracy and serfdom.