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# Could Europeans, Englishmen or Americans of the nineteenth century ever have thought of banning Russian culture, which was precisely then acquiring worldwide significance and influence?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/moglo-by-evropeitsam-anglichanam-ili-amerikantsam-xix-veka-priiti-v-golovu-zapreshchat-russkuiu-kulturu-kotoraia-kak-raz-v-to-vremia-obrela-vsemirnoe-znachenie-i-vliianie/
- Published: 2022-03-15T10:27:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:39:15.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Observations, Society

I doubt it.

Especially when I read, for instance, in a letter from Charles Dickens to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, whether he knows of the new Russian authors, such as Nikolai Gogol and his "Taras Bulba".