The image of America in the travel diaries of Pavel Petrovich Svin'in
This article is dedicated to the analysis of perception of American culture in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The important sources of the perception of American culture in Russia have been travel and diary books of the Russians, who visited the USA. One of them was Pavel Petrovich Svinrin (1787-1839), a secretary of the Consul-General of Russia in Philadelphia, Nicolas Yakovlevich Kozlov in 1811-1813.