Unknown History: Lewis Carroll in Russia

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That one time the famous author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, met an Orthodox saint and felt a little terrified of a long Russian word…

Sources:

Carroll, Lewis. The Russian Journal and Other Selections from the Works of Lewis Carroll. John Francis McDermott, ed. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1935.

Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Michael, Richard and Richard Kelly, Lewis Carroll, vol 10, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1990.

“Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: the writer's adventures in Russia,” RBTH (27 January 2017); https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2017/01/27/lewis-carroll-in-russia_690043 (accessed 29 December 2022).

Photos of the Trinity Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin by A.Savin, WikiCommons.