A Taste for Freedom

The Life of Astolphe de Custine

• Author(s): Anka Muhlstein,
• Publisher: Helen Marx Books
• Pages: 391
• ISBN_10: 1885983417
  ISBN_13: 9781885983411
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / European / French , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Bisexual Studies ,

Description:... Astolphe de Custine's Russia in 1839 was called "the best guide to Russia ever written;" essential to understanding Stalin and the Soviet Union. Astolphe was a son of the French Revolution, whose father and grandfather had been guillotined and whose mother had been imprisoned.