Robinson Crusoe in Russia
19 June 2026 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI was distinctly surprised to discover by chance that Daniel Defoe actually wrote a sequel to "Robinson Crusoe" (The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) in which his protagonist ends up spending more than a year travelling through Russia ("Grand Tartary") at the beginning of the eighteenth century... published in Russian, apparently, as "Robinson in Siberia"!
https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/cruikshank/crusoe/38.html
He is now a local tourist attraction :-)
https://visittyumen.ru/what-to-do/dostoprimechatelnosti/pamyatniki/zhizn-i-priklyucheniya-robinzona-kruzo-v-sibiri/
https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/cruikshank/crusoe/38.html
He is now a local tourist attraction :-)
https://visittyumen.ru/what-to-do/dostoprimechatelnosti/pamyatniki/zhizn-i-priklyucheniya-robinzona-kruzo-v-sibiri/
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Date: 2026-06-20 02:36 am (UTC)