Nikolai Gretschs Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a threevolume account published by Nikolai Gretsch 17871867 in Russian in 1839. In the original Russian Gretsch describes his travels in postNapoleonic England France and Germany in 1837 at the behest of the Russian Empire. Gretsch had been asked to travel into Western Europe to examine the educational systems and report his findings to the Russian government. However he was more than just a functionary. He was a journal