Hapgood Isabel Florence
Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1851 - June 26, 1928) was an U.S. writer and translator of Russian texts. Hapgood was born in Boston, the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages, specializing in Orthodox liturgical texts. She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889, meeting Leo Tolstoy. Hapgood died in New York.
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A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
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Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851-1928) was an U. S. writer and translator of Russian texts. She was born in Boston, the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages, specializing in Orthodox liturgical texts. She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889, meeting Leo Tolstoy. Hapgood died in New York. Her works include: The Epic Songs of Russia (1886), Russian Rambles (1895), A Survey of Russian Literature (1902), The Village (with Ivan Alekseevich Bunin) (1923) and Little Russian and St. Petersburg Tales (? ). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Russian Rambles
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excerpt from the book...PASSPORTS, POLICE, AND POST-OFFICE IN RUSSIA.We imported into Russia, untaxed, undiscovered by the custom-houseofficials, a goodly stock of misadvice, misinformation, apprehensions,and prejudices, like most foreigners, albeit we were unusually wellinformed, and confident that we were correctly posted on the grandoutlines of Russian life, at least. We were forced to begin verypromptly the involuntary process of getting rid of them. Our anxietybegan in Berlin. We visited the Russian consul-general there to get ourpassports _vised_. He said, "You should have got the signature of theAmerican consul. Do that, and return here."
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A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
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Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851-1928) was an U. S. writer and translator of Russian texts. She was born in Boston, the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages, specializing in Orthodox liturgical texts. She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889, meeting Leo Tolstoy. Hapgood died in New York. Her works include: The Epic Songs of Russia (1886), Russian Rambles (1895), A Survey of Russian Literature (1902), The Village (with Ivan Alekseevich Bunin) (1923) and Little Russian and St. Petersburg Tales (? ). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Russian Rambles
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excerpt from the book...PASSPORTS, POLICE, AND POST-OFFICE IN RUSSIA.We imported into Russia, untaxed, undiscovered by the custom-houseofficials, a goodly stock of misadvice, misinformation, apprehensions,and prejudices, like most foreigners, albeit we were unusually wellinformed, and confident that we were correctly posted on the grandoutlines of Russian life, at least. We were forced to begin verypromptly the involuntary process of getting rid of them. Our anxietybegan in Berlin. We visited the Russian consul-general there to get ourpassports _vised_. He said, "You should have got the signature of theAmerican consul. Do that, and return here."
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