About the author:
Maria S. Akimova — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25a, 121069 Moscow, Russia; Senior Researcher, Museum of Zelenograd, Gogol str., 11B, 124575 Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-3949
Abstract:
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.