TUSZYÑSKA Agata - Russians in Warsaw (PARIS CULTURE)

"A fascinating book based on an excellent idea, written concisely, interestingly and competently. It is a kind of lexicon devoted to Russian elements and accents in pre-independence Warsaw." ("Dziennik Polski" New York).

"There is in this book one of the faces of Warsaw in the time of Boleslaw Prus, which one would look for in vain in the pages of "Lalka". Agata Tuszyńska has tried to recreate that Warsaw. Based on the accounts of historians and diarists, old guidebooks and old photographs, she sketches an inventory of props, characters, plots. Sixty-nine entries from 'Apuchtin' to 'gendarmes'. And then there's (...) an introduction, in which the author writes more broadly about the mechanisms of coexistence of two separate worlds: Polishness and the Russian corset imposed on it. The whole is arranged into a vivid and engaging historical reportage, worth reading not only as a supplement to nineteenth-century Polish novels." ("Tygodnik Powszechny")

Year of publication 1990, Format 215 x 135 mm, 125s.

Published by the Literary Institute in Paris, in the series Library of "Culture" (volume 464).

Piece in BDB condition.