Conversations about Russian culture. Everyday life and traditions of the Russian nobility (XVIII – early XIX century)
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Conversations about Russian culture. Everyday life and traditions of the Russian nobility (XVIII – early XIX century)
14.99 €
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is a world-renowned scholar, philologist and cultural critic whose works have been translated into all major European languages. His creative heritage is extremely extensive and includes about eight hundred scientific and popular scientific articles and books. He was destined to become the head of an entire scientific school, which developed new methods of analyzing the artistic text, alien to the official Soviet literary studies. Like many prominent scholars, it was difficult for Lotman to remain within one scientific discipline: his research was devoted not only to the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also to the history of Russian social thought, art theory, and cultural studies. In the late 1980s he lectured on television about the life and traditions of the Russian nobility: these TV programs attracted millions of viewers. Based on the television series of lectures, the scientist created the book "Conversations on Russian Culture". It immerses the reader in the epoch of the XVIII - early XIX century, which is presented through the realities of everyday life: the table of ranks, home schooling, high society ball, duel, card game, etc. The book is based on a series of lectures on television. Thanks to the variety of documentary sources involved, the breadth of generalizations and accessibility of the presentation, one of the most important studies on the history of Russian noble culture still remains popular not only among specialists, but also with a wide readership.
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