Travel writing was conceived in Western Europe during the 17th and early 18th centuries to record leisurely travel by the elite, explains Dickenson, and became ... » 

Travel writing was conceived in Western Europe during the 17th and early 18th centuries to record leisurely travel by the elite, explains Dickenson, and became prominent in Russia during the last third of the 18th century. She examines the evolution of the genre in Russia from its emergence through its apogee in the late 18th and early 19th centuri «