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Essays on the cultural history of footwear in Russia – Terekhova Maria – New Literary Review – 2025 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2687-4

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Tango shoes, “Goodbye, youth!” boots, stocking boots, Dr. Martens… How did these and many other types of footwear appear in Russia? Where were they made and sold? Who wore them, how and why, and what did they think about it? How is it connected with fashion, technology, historical, cultural and socio-political contexts? What were its cultural meanings? Maria Terekhova’s book is devoted to finding answers to these questions, in which the author strives to “give voice” to such seemingly trivial objects as boots and shoes. But the voices of their owners are no less important for the study: memoirs, diaries and letters of eyewitnesses from different historical eras. At the intersection of human and “material” voices, new meanings are revealed, because shoes are often connected with personal and family memory, emotionally, affectively and physically interact with their owner. We wear shoes, and they practically wear us, and together we enter history. Maria Terekhova is a historian of fashion and culture, senior researcher at the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.
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