![]() Firstly, he was enslaved in Constantinople, and had to escape-and Russia was the nearest stopping-off point on his anti-clockwise trip around Europe. Don Juan should have a reality which his Turkish Tales, at least one of which, Lara, was, as he confessed to his publisher, set on ‘the Moon’, 1 manifestly lacked.ĢThere were a number of reasons why Don Juan should visit Russia. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result of his study of Scott’s Waverley Novels, he was determined that no episode should pass without a firm backing either in his own experience, or in authentic prose sources. 1 Byron to Murray, 24 July 1814: text from National Library of Scotland (hereafter NLS) Ms.43488 By (.)ġRussia posed a problem for Byron when writing Don Juan, for although he had never been there, the geographical, historical, and sexual themes of his comic epic dictated that his hero should go there. ![]()
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