A World of Empires

The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada

“Bojanowska opens an intriguing window on to this earlier age of globalization.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times “A gem: intelligent, finely written, and original. Bojanowska analyzes the 1852 Pallada expedition through...the famous and enigmatic Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov.”

—Linda Colley, author of Captives Belknap Press | $35.00