The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 : : Public Role and Subjective Self / / ed. by Andrei Zorin, Andreas Schönle, Alexei Evstratov.
This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's worldview, complex identities, conflicting...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (420 p.) :; 10 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Dates
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 INTERNALIZING PUBLIC ROLES
- From Passions to Ambitions
- Curiosity, Utility, Pleasure
- 2 THE COURT AND THE FAMILY
- Dramatic Conflicts and Social Performance at the Russian Court in the 1760s
- Performing Womanhood in Eighteenth-Century Russia
- 3 THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY
- The Practice of Personal Finance and the Problem of Debt among the Noble Elite in Eighteenth-Century Russia
- Self-fashioning, Estate Design, and Agricultural Improvement
- 4 OFFICERS OFF THE BATTLEFIELD
- Warriors in Peace
- The Political Language of the Europeanized Military Elite in the Early Nineteenth Century
- 5 ALTERNATIVE SOCIABILITIES AND SPIRITUALITIES
- The Emotional Culture of Moscow Rosicrucians
- The Moscow English Club and the Public Sphere in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia
- 6 EXPERIENCING THE OTHER
- Russian Prince vs. "German Swine"
- Between Friends, the Coachman
- 7 THE RADICAL BIFURCATION
- The Instability of Time and Plurality of Selves at Court and in Society
- Sentimental Piety and Orthodox Asceticism
- CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index