The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 : : Public Role and Subjective Self /

The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 : : Public Role and Subjective Self / / ed. by Andrei Zorin, Andreas Schönle, Alexei Evstratov.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Andriainen, Stanislav,
Evstratov, Alexei,
Fedyukin, Igor,
Iosad, Alexander,
Korchmina, Elena,
Marrese, Michelle Lamarche,
Randolph, John,
Schönle, Andreas,
Velizhev, Mikhail,
Zorin, Andrei,
HerausgeberIn:
Evstratov, Alexei,
Schönle, Andreas,
Zorin, Andrei,
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

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