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Adventure, mutual images and Orientalism: Joel R. Poinsett in Russia (1806-1808)
Ch. 10. P. 206–238.
Matos Franco R. M.
Joel R. Poinsett is a fascinating, yet forgotten, figure in United States history. He had a long political and diplomatic career as one of the most travelled US officials in the first half of the 19th century. In 1806-1808 he travelled to and through Russia, met Tsar Alexander I, and contrasted in his letters and diary the differences between Russian and American political and social systems. Poinsett also knew the “Oriental Russia”, for he went to the Volga and Caucasus regions. His anecdotes and those of his companion, the British Lord Royston (previously unedited), are extremely interesting as testimonies of Russian Orientalism which are presented here for the first time in over a century.
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