Rosyjskie podróże po Wielkim Księstwie Finlandzkim w interpretacji imagologicznej
The Russian Journeys Through the Grand Duchy of Finland in Imagological Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is the review of Adam Nowakowski’s work In the Land of Thousand Lakes. The image of Finland in the Russian travel literature (1809-1917). According to the perspective of imagology this author analyses different texts of Russian travelers who were visiting The Great Duchy of Finland. Those texts are ordered and represented chronologically, and it lets to show not only the process of creation of the various image of Finland and its inhabitants in the Russian travel literature, but also the evolution of this image during over than hundred years. The image of Finland and its inhabitants has been changed a lot – from empire protectionism to idealization of this land as the most developed and European province of Russian Empire. The material gathered in the monograph and parsed by the author very accurately allows to recognize Adam Nowakowski’s work as an important scientific research for Polish imagology.

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