Russian Paints America

Marina Swoboda, co-editor of Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition, is the author of numerous articles in the field of early Russian literature and cultural history.William Benton Whisenhunt, professor of history, College of DuPage, is the

• Acknowledgments; A Note on the Translation Introduction / Christopher Ely; The Beginnings of Russian-American Diplomatic Relations / William Benton Whisenhunt; A Biography of Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 17871839 / William Benton Whisenhunt; Travel in North America and the Genre of the Picturesque Journey / Marina Swoboda; A Picturesque Voyage through North America / Pavel P. Svinin Translated by Marina Swoboda Appendix: Observations of a Russian in America: A Look at the Free Visual Arts in the United States of America Pavel P. Svinin Translated by Marina Swoboda Additional Watercolours of North America by Pavel P. Svinin Notes; Bibliography; Index

"This is an important subject, and this Russian's view of America needs more recognition." Norman E. Saul, University of Kansas "An interesting and important early account of American landscape, society, and government, from a point of view largely unknown in North America - that of a moderately progressive Russian official at the time of Alexander I." Paul Bushkovitch, Yale University