Life On The Russian Country Estate

Author : Priscilla R. Roosevelt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300072627
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Russian Country Estate written by Priscilla R. Roosevelt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om livet på de russiske godser indtil revolutionen

Author : Laura A Victoir
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838254260
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Country Estate Today written by Laura A Victoir and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia’s country estates were fulcrums of culture, learning and socio-administration under the imperial state. Only a fraction of the original numbers of these structures survives today, and yet even today several of the most famous of these buildings have uncertain futures. At risk is the survival of this fascinating remnant of Russia’s cultural history. This matter is especially salient as post-Soviet Russia has participated in a struggle over means of its own self-representation. Historic landmarks enter the political arena during periods of drastic change. The struggle over monuments reveals notable adjustments and continuities over a nation’s historical narrative; the study of the treatment of certain monuments provides insight to the language, symbols and memory of a people in transition. This book examines links between two seemingly divergent spheres of human interaction, those of politics and culture. The aim of this book is not to analyse the artistic and architectural merits of Russia’s country estates, as a plethora of works already address this subject. Rather, the objective is to look at the underlying attitudes and circumstances which affect the survival of this integral feature of Russia’s pre-revolutionary secular past. A variety of factors come into play in estate preservation, such as: privatization, restitution, taxation, legislation, actions of governmental and non-government organizations, tourism, and others. This book analyzes Russia’s institutions and actors that continually compete for shifting and scarce resources in the sphere of culture, often to the detriment of physical cultural artefacts themselves. More than just Russia’s estates are subject to these forces although estates serve as an excellent lens with which to view these destructive processes at work.

Author : Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300109121
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Architecture and the West written by Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russia’s leading architectural historian, departs from the accepted notion that Russian architecture developed independent of outside cultural influences and demonstrates that, to the contrary, the influence of the West extends back to the tenth century and continues into the present. He offers compelling assessments of all the main masterpieces of Russian architecture and frames a radically new architectural history for Russia. The book systematically analyzes Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. Special attention is directed toward decorations based on Byzantine models; the heritage of Italian master builders and carvers; the impact of architects and others sent by Elizabeth I; the formation of the Russian Imperial Baroque; the Enlightenment in Russian art; and 19th- and 20th-century European influences. With over 300 specially commissioned photographs of sites throughout Russia and western Europe, this magnificent book is both beautiful and groundbreaking.

Author : Klara Bauer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021567253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Russian Country House written by Klara Bauer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book provides a glimpse into the world of the Russian rural aristocracy in the early 20th century. Through the lens of one family's experience, Bauer explores the challenges and opportunities facing wealthy landowners during a time of political and social upheaval. From the beauty of the countryside to the hardships of war and revolution, this book paints a vivid picture of life in pre-revolutionary Russia. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Elizabeth Gaynor
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Houses written by Elizabeth Gaynor and published by Taschen. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Houses offers an unprecedented look at the architecture and interiors of Ostankino, the Menshikov Palace, and other homes of the princes and czars. The rough-hewn beauty of traditional peasant homes--with their samovars, stoves, and ornate exteriors--is portrayed with knowledgeable and insightful authority. The breathtaking photographs and evocative text guide the reader through the homes of Pasternak, Gorky, Dostoevsky, and other artists and intellectuals. Over 300 full color photographs.

Author : Valeria Z. Nollan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666917605
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sergei Rachmaninoff written by Valeria Z. Nollan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeria Z. Nollan’s biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff’s complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the first biography of Rachmaninoff in English that presents him in the fullness of his Russian identity. As someone whose own life in Russian emigration ran in parallel ways to Rachmaninoff’s own—and whose meetings with the composer’s grandson in Switzerland informed her work—Nollan brings important cultural insights into her observations of the activities of this generation of creative artists. She also traces the intricacies of Rachmaninoff’s relations with the women closest to him—whose imprints are palpable in his compositions—and introduces a mystery woman whose existence challenges our established narrative of his life.

Author : Liza Knapp
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299307905
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina and Others written by Liza Knapp and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knapp reads Anna Karenina with other texts, including ones that strongly influenced Tolstoy, to illuminate his understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives.

Author : 张建华著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 帝国风暴：大变革前夜的俄罗斯 written by 张建华著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1762-1855年是俄罗斯帝国最为鼎盛之时期，亦是俄罗斯思想文化最为辉煌之时代，同时也是旧制度的优势和合法性消耗殆尽之时期，更是民族、国家、社会、家庭和个人大变革的前夜。本书关注这一历史转折时期俄罗斯帝国的内部结构的演变、统治者帝国治理观念的转变、帝国意识形态的变迁、俄国的国家形象与民族形象的转换，由此考察大变革前夜（1861年农奴制改革和俄国现代化进程启动前），俄罗斯帝国和社会面临的诸多紧要问题和命运挑战。

Author : William Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487191
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Russian Thought written by William Leatherbarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the Golden Age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history.

Author : Harriet Murav
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472023330
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Legal Fictions written by Harriet Murav and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia. The conflict between the Russian writer and the law is a well-known feature of Russian literary life in the past two centuries. With one exception, the authors discussed in this book--Sukhovo-Kobylin, Akhsharumov, Suvorin, and Dostoevsky in the nineteenth century and Solzhenitsyn and Siniavskii in the twentieth--were all put on trial. In Russia's Legal Fictions, Harriet Murav starts with the authors' own writings about their experience with law and explores the history of these Russian literary trials, including censorship, libel cases, and one case of murder, in their specific historical context, showing how particular aspects of the culture of the time relate to the case. The book explores the specifically Russian literary and political conditions in which writers claim the authority not only as the authors of fiction but as lawgivers in the realm of the real, and in which the government turns to the realm of the literary to exercise its power. The author uses specific aspects of Russian culture, history and literature to consider broader theoretical questions about the relationship between law, narrative, and authority. Murav offers a history of the reception of the jury trial and the development of a professional bar in late Imperial Russia as well as an exploration of theories of criminality, sexuality, punishment, and rehabilitation in Imperial and Soviet Russia. This book will be of interest to scholars of law and literature and Russian law, history and culture. Harriet Murav is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Davis.