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With the age of voyages of discovery in the 15th century, the curtain of history slowly came down on the late Middle Ages. Portuguese and Spanish seafarers set out to remeasure the dimensions of the earth. Numerous spices and fruits, which we would hardly be able to do without today, found their way to Europe for the first time. Columbus discovered America in 1492 on his quest for India. Six years later, it was left to Vasco da Gama to travel through the sea route to India sought by Columbus on the eastern route around Africa.

"What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan Zweig's bourgeois world collapsed with the First World War, he went searching for alternative forms of society, which culminated in a journey through the at that time still young Soviet Union.

Stefan Zweig schrieb nicht nur Romane und Biographien sondern auch Gedichte. In den Landschafts- und Städteportraits seines Buches "Fahrten, Landschaften und Städte" aus dem Jahr 1919 wird dies besonders deutlich. In poetischen Worten beschreibt Zweig hier die Exotik Algiers, die Mystik von Benares in Indien, den Rhythmus von New York und zahlreiche andere Landschaften und Städte.