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Title: An Outline of Russian Literature

Author: Maurice Baring

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HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE

AN OUTLINE
OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

By the Hon. MAURICE BARING

LONDON
WILLIAMS & NORGATE

HENRY HOLT & CO., NEW YORK
CANADA: RYERSON PRESS, TORONTO
INDIA: R. & T. WASHBOURNE, LTD.

HOME
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

OF

MODERN KNOWLEDGE

_Editors:_

HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D.

Prof. GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A.

Prof. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., LL.D.

Prof. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A.
(Columbia University, U.S.A.)

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

AN OUTLINE OF
RUSSIAN
LITERATURE

BY THE HON.
MAURICE BARING

AUTHOR OF "WITH THE RUSSIANS IN
MANCHURIA," "A YEAR IN RUSSIA," "THE
RUSSIAN PEOPLE," ETC.

LONDON
WILLIAMS AND NORGATE

_First printed 1914/15_

PREFACE

The chief difficulty which Englishmen have experienced in writing
about Russia has, up till quite lately, been the prevailing ignorance
of the English public with regard to all that concerns Russian
affairs. A singularly intelligent Ru