Marquis de Custine

Astolphe Léonor Louis, Marquis de Custine ( born March 18, 1790 in Niderviller, Lorraine, † September 25, 1857 in Paris) was a French travel writer.

Life

Astolphe was the second child of Armand de Custine and Delphine de Sabran and a grandson of the 1793 executed General Adam Philippe de Custine. He entered the diplomatic service and took on the side of Talleyrand part in the Congress of Vienna. In 1821 he married Léontine de Saint- Simon de Courtomer. He traveled 1811-22 England, Scotland, Switzerland and Calabria, went to Spain in 1835 and in the summer of 1839 to Russia. This journey lasted from early July to late September. He stayed a long time in St. Petersburg and traveled from there to Moscow to Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir and then to Moscow and St. Petersburg. De Custine died in September 1857.

His extensive travels gave him the material for his writings, he also wrote successful novels and short stories and verse drama: Beatrix Cenci ( 1833). His Lettres à Varnhagen d' Ense et Rahel Varnhagen d' Ense published in 1870 in Brussels.

The records of the trip to Russia were issued in the form of a collection of letters in 1843. Almost simultaneously published a German and an English edition. In Russia, the book was banned until 1917.

In 1985, excerpts are published as Russian shadow.

Works

  • Beatrice Cenci. En cinq actes en vers Tragédie. Fourier, Paris 1833
  • Le monde comme il est. Novel. Édition Renduel, 2 vols, Paris 1835
  • Lettres de Marquis de Custine A. et à Varnhagen Rahel Varnhagen d' Ense. Accompagnées de plusieurs lettres de la Comtesse Delphine de Custine et de Rahel Varnhagen d' Ense. Edited by Ludmilla Assing. Bruxelles, C. Muquardt, Henry Untermerzbach 1870 ND: Édition Slatkine, Paris, Geneva, 1979 ( Collection ressources 52), ISBN 2-05-000119-3
  • Correspondence with Hermann von Pueckler in idem: Beriefwechsel and diaries. Edited by Ludmilla Assing - Grimelli. Vol 8, Wedekind & Schwieger, Berlin 1876 ND Herbert Lang, Bern 1971, p 452 ff
  • Mémoires et voyages ou droplettes écrites à diverses époques pendant des courses en Suisse en Calabre, en Angleterre et en Ecosse. 2 vols, Bourin, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-87686-142-9
  • La Russie en 1839. 4 vols, Librairie d' Amyot, Paris 1843, ND Gregg Books, Farnborough, 1971, ISBN 0-576-12108-8 Web resource Russia in 1839 ( " La Russie en 1839 "). Berger, Leipzig 1843 (translated from August Diezmann )
  • Russian shadow. Prophetic letters from 1839 ( " La Russie en 1839 "). Greno, Nördlingen, 1985, ISBN 3-921568-43-9 ( The Other library, Vol 12; abridged ed the previous track)
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