“A Year in the North” by S.V. Maksimov as a Document of the Era

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The article is devoted to the history of S.V. Maksimov’s “literary expedition” to the North of the Russian Empire, which resulted in the book of essays “A Year in the North”, interesting from artistic and historical points of view. The book was written in the middle of the 19th century and recorded important events and phenomena of this period, which are of great ethnographic interest today. The article reveals the main stages of the expedition, its causes and results, the book “A Year in the North” is considered in the context of S.V. Maksimov’s era, as well as in the context of modernity.