[PDF.74jd] Life on the Russian Country Estate: A Social and Cultural History

Life on the Russian Country Estate: A Social and Cultural History

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 | #1293758 in Books |  1995-10-25 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.27 x9.89 x10.40l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages

 | book | russian social history | russia

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Self and Splendor: the World of the Russian Country Estate|By Keith Wheelock|Professor Priscilla Roosevelt, author of the magisterial LIFE ON THE RUSSIAN COUNTRY ESTATE: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY, degreed at Harvard and Columbia, became fascinated by the social and cultural history of Russian estates while writing her doctoral dissertation. This passion has resulted in her|From Booklist|The Russia of the old regime was an overwhelmingly rural society even at the dawn of the twentieth century. Like the plantation owners of our antebellum South, the landed aristocrats of Russia saw th

From the reign of Peter the Great, Russia's country estates were oases of barbarian splendour and personal freedom in a vast, sparsely settled and authoritarian land. This work explores the vanished world of the Russian country estate. It examines the aristocratic dwellings, discussing their origins, their design and decoration, the social, family, and cultural life within their walls, and their physical demise after the 1917 revolution. In these enclaves, newly acquired...

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