The Pushkin Era: The Threshold. 18th Century – Sergey Surin – IS – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-17-185607-6
The Pushkin Era: The Threshold. 18th Century
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The Pushkin Era: The Threshold. 18th Century
39.99 €
Sergey Surin is a St. Petersburg-based literary scholar, writer, and composer. He is the author of the books "Alexander Pushkin: The Near Future" and "Alexander Pushkin: Peace and Freedom." He also runs the YouTube channel and VKontakte community "Sergey Surin's Lectures," the text project "One Day in the Life of Alexander Sergeevich," the lecture-performance series "Pushkin's Puzzle" with classical and jazz musicians, the lecture project "The Phenomenon of the Pushkin Era," and the brainstorming sessions for high school students "The Untextbook Pushkin," "The Untextbook Lermontov," and "The Untextbook Griboyedov."
This book—21 essays on the history of 18th-century Russian culture (or, more broadly, from the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich to the beginning of the reign of Alexander I)—is a fascinating journey into the past. This book tells a simple, vivid, and dynamic story about the people who shaped the Russian literary language, the first extravagant political figures, dedicated bibliophiles, remarkable patrons of the arts, the first independent Russian beauties, and the monumental scandals associated with them. It explores the birth of Russian theater, Russian poetry and artistic thought, book printing, and the confrontation between the tsars and the opposition. In this book, you'll find not only stories about well-known figures like Mikhail Lomonosov, Gavriil Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, and Alexander Radishchev, but also those who have been undeservedly relegated to the margins of our memory. It helps us understand how 18th-century culture shaped our national identity, how it paved the way for the subsequent Pushkin era, and what mark it left on Russian history.
This book—21 essays on the history of 18th-century Russian culture (or, more broadly, from the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich to the beginning of the reign of Alexander I)—is a fascinating journey into the past. This book tells a simple, vivid, and dynamic story about the people who shaped the Russian literary language, the first extravagant political figures, dedicated bibliophiles, remarkable patrons of the arts, the first independent Russian beauties, and the monumental scandals associated with them. It explores the birth of Russian theater, Russian poetry and artistic thought, book printing, and the confrontation between the tsars and the opposition. In this book, you'll find not only stories about well-known figures like Mikhail Lomonosov, Gavriil Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, and Alexander Radishchev, but also those who have been undeservedly relegated to the margins of our memory. It helps us understand how 18th-century culture shaped our national identity, how it paved the way for the subsequent Pushkin era, and what mark it left on Russian history.
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