The Romantic Exiles: A Nineteenth-century Portrait Gallery

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Penguin Books, 1949 - 448 Seiten
The story of a group of Russian exiles, men who left their country in the 'forties and 'fifties of the 19th century, all revolutionary in word if not in deed, and nearly all bound together by some kind of more or Iess intimate personal relationship. On the human side the story forms a series of recurrent triangles, Natalie Herzen, after a romantic friendship with Natalie Tuchkov, becoming' the mistress of the German poet Hervegh ; Herzen himself, after the death of the first Natalie, becoming the lover of Natalie Tuchkov, now married to his friend Ogarev. Ogarev, true to his advanced opinions, continued to live with them both, only consoling himself with drink and a Leicester Square prostitute whom, with unquenchable - and justified - idealism he set up in a separate establishment. In the story the dissident/poet Michael Bukanin (possibly gay) and George Sand (a cross-dressed female writer) also play a role.

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Preface 74
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The Promised Land
29
I
53
Urheberrecht

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