Russian and American Travel Writers
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During the Cold War of the 20th century, Russians and Americans saw each other as rivals. But as Kelley Libby reports, that rivalry was cultivated in the 19th century by Russian and American travel writers.
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Kelley: One of those writers was Mark Twain, who in a 1905 essay, calls for the assassination of the Russian monarchy.
Twain reenactor: "When you grow up, knife a Romanoff wherever you find him. Loyalty to these cobras is treason to the nation."
Kelley Libby: But Twain hadn’t always been so critical of Russia. In fact, he enjoyed a visit to the Russian monarch’s palace in 1869. Afterward, he wrote this favorable description in his travel book The Innocents Abroad:
Twain reenactor: “It is easy to see that he is kind and affectionate. There is none of that cunning in his eye that all of us noticed in Louis Napoleon's.”
Kelley: Margarita Marinova says Twain wasn’t the only admirer of Russia in this period just after the American Civil War. And Russians admired Americans too.
Marinova: “Russians and Americans truly believed that they were the answer to the old, tired customs that every...
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