New e-book: Letters from the North, Alexander Shirvanzade

Set in the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire, the journey leads from Tiflis along the Georgian Military Road and through towns of the North Caucasus toward Moscow and St. Petersburg. Observations of landscapes, cities, and people develop into reflections on Armenian society, the press, and intellectual life. The text focuses on moral compromise, self-interest, public responsibility, and the condition of the cultural world.