Download or read book Empire of the Czar written by Astolphe marquis de Custine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1990 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its publication, the Marquis de Custine's colorful account of his journey through Russia is more relevant today than ever before. "Throughout the years, Custine's Empire has remained one of the most famous Western accounts of czarist days".--San Francisco Chronicle. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.