"Journey From Petersburg to Moscow" (published in 1790, was thе work by the writer Aleksander Radishchev) is a polemical study of the problems in the Russia: serfdom, the powers of the nobility, the issues in government and governance, social structure and personal freedom and liberty.
(The book starts from an epigraph about The Beast who is "enormous, disgusting, a-hundred-maws and barking" meaning the Russian Empire.)
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