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Astolphe de Custine
Marquis de Custine
Full name
Astolphe-Louis-Léonor
BornAstolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine
18 March 1790
Niderviller, France
Died25 September 1857 (Aged 67)
Paris, France
BuriedChapelle d'Auquainville, Auquainville, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France
Spouse(s)Léontine de Saint-Simon de Courtomer
IssueEnguerrand de Custine
FatherArmand Renaud-Louis-Philippe-Francois, Marquis de Custine
MotherDelphine de Sabran

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (18 March 1790 – 25 September 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia, La Russie en 1839. This work documents not only Custine's travels through the Russian Empire, but also the social fabric, economy and way of life during the reign of Nicholas I.

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Custine

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Delphine de Custine

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Russian Ark

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history. He is accompanied by "the European", who represents the Marquis de Custine, a 19th-century French traveler. An international co-production between...

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La Russie en 1839

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French author Marquis de Custine. Highly critical of Russia, it was banned there during the era of the Russian Empire. Due to this work, Custine was later...

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Nicholas I of Russia

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Catherine Bagration

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LGBT rights in the 19th century

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Winter Palace

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Tsar ordered that the rebuilding be completed within a year. The Marquis de Custine described the "unheard of efforts" that were necessary to facilitate...

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List of French people

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Constant Tristan Corbière Pierre Corneille, classicist playwright Marquis de Custine, travel writer Jean-Marie Dallet Joseph Dallois Myriam David, psychoanalyst...

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Auquainville

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detail Church of Notre Dame: Altar detail Astolphe Louis Léonor, Marquis de Custine (1790-1857), writer, is buried in the Chapel of Saint-Aubin-sur-Auquainville...

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Prison of peoples

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policy of that time. The idea of calling Russia a prison is based on Marquis de Custine's book La Russie en 1839. Engels had used the phrase. It is also associated...

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List of travel books

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Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1836) Gleanings in Europe: England (1837) Marquis de Custine (1790–1857) Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (1838)...

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1790 in literature

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Jacques Arago, French traveller and writer (died 1855) March 18 – Marquis de Custine, French aristocrat and travel writer (died 1857) June 9 – Abel-François...

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Rachilde

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life, and compared her again to Charles Baudelaire and also to the Marquis de Custine for the quality of her writing and for her veiled approach to exploring...

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Friendship of peoples

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first applied to pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russia in the 1840s by Marquis de Custine's critical book La Russie en 1839. It was later taken up by Alexander...

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Mikhailovsky Palace

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balls at the palace, the equal to those of the Imperial family. The Marquis de Custine recalled that "Grand Duchess Elena for each of the festivities she...

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Monument to Nicholas I

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1843 in literature

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Present Marquis de Custine – La Russie en 1839 (Russia in 1839) Benjamin Hall Kennedy – Elementary Latin Primer Søren Kierkegaard (as Johannes de Silentio)...

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List of foreign observers of Russia

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traveler c. 1829: Alexander von Humboldt German naturalist 1839: Marquis de Custine very hostile 1847: August von Haxthausen publicized the peasant commune...

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Konstantin Poltoratsky

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courteously, which was already a charm". In her Yaroslavl parlor, Marquis de Custine, by his own admission, felt like "in London or rather in Petersburg"...

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