The Edge of Empire or the Center of the Self: Endpoints and Itineraries in Nineteenth-Century Russian Travel.

The article introduces and opines upon articles in the current issue. An article by Valeria Sobol discusses a work entitled "Geroi nashego vremeni" by somebody named Lermontov as a means of understanding the youthful development of somebody else referred to as Pechorin. A paper by Ingrid Kleespies examines a couple of figures named Onegin and Oblomov in her effort to demonstrate that the idea of a Russian "homecoming" is futile. An article by Anne Lounsbery shows how the novel "Oblomov" addresses issues of mobility and modernization.