A New book by Alexey Kara-Murza

There has been published a new book by A.A. Kara-Murza, the chief research fellow of the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue has been published

Akvilon Publishing House published the book "The Italian Travel of Pyotr Chaadayev", written by Doctor of Philosophy, professor of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksey A. Kara-Murza.

Abstract
The monograph of the famous philosopher and historian explores the circumstances of the stay of the Russian thinker Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (1794–1856), whose 225th birth anniversary is celebrated in 2019, in Italy in December 1824 - August 1825. Going abroad in the summer of 1823, retired guard captain Chaadaev did not initially plan to visit Italian states at all, confining himself to Germany, England, France and, possibly, Switzerland. However, during the voyage, it was Italy (the Sardinian Kingdom, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Papal State and the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, which was part of the Austrian Empire) that became the most important stage in his European journey. According to the author, it was in Florence and Rome that Chaadaev formed the main provisions of his original historiosophical concept, which were then stated in the Philosophical Letters in the second half of the 1820s. A separate plot of the book is an analysis of the circumstances of Chaadayev’s return to Russia in 1826, at the height of the investigation into the case of the participants in the “Decembrist conspiracy”.

The Italian Travel of Pyotr Chaadaev (PDF, 14.47 Мб)