Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

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Other topics include the failed Decembrist uprising, Moscow, customs, religion (the Orthodox Church) and superstition, Asiatic Russia (i. Their willingness to reconstruct the cultural forms of the day appealed to western readers and spectators.

o de oriente, el campo y la idealización de la cultura campesina (lo honesto, apegado a la tierra) contra la visión urbana y progresista, la religión ortodoxa contra los mitos y creencias populares, el distanciamiento de la monarquía y los nobles del sentir popular.It's very easy to read, the language is not particularly academic or heavy, and there are no boring parts.

Peasants decided that many socialists among them were police spies and turned them over to the authorities for fear of being thought disloyal to the monarchy. During a severe harvest failure it was even known for the peasants to exhume the corpses of those whose evil spirits were thought to be to blame. Non può certo essere contenuta in una biblioteca, come gli “otto volumi sottili” che gli esuli mettevano nel loro bagaglio. g. кошмар, cauchemar, ‘nightmare’), principally because French was considered to be the language of the nobility and upper-class, much as Latin was the de facto language of international communication, scholarship, and science well into the eighteenth century.

As with the previous note about Western versus Eastern influence, this felt like an obvious lack of depth to what should have been a more significant portion of the overall ‘cultural history,’ so to speak. Je hanbou krajiny, že najväčšie piliere svojej kultúry pravidelne vystavuje enormnému tlaku bezohľadne valiacich sa dejín. Their characters - aristocrats, Caucasian tribesmen, drunkards, prostitutes and soldiers - gambled, sang and philosophised in each other's company.

He shows how, perhaps more than any other country, Russia's sense of identity is embodied in its culture: not only its great poetry, music, books and paintings, but also in its common ideas, customs, habits and beliefs.

The complexities of Russian culture are not to be taken on lightly, but Figes successfully guides the reader through the forest of the great Pantheon of music, literature, poetry, art, and much more which form the cultural heritage of the world’s largest country. Haklarını anlatmak, onlarla birlikte yaşamak için bir çok aydın ve öğrenci halka gitmiş ama girişimleri hüsranla sonuçlanmış. But that’s all something you could find on the back cover, so here are some issues I had with the book and with Figes’s approach in general. A tour de force by the great storyteller of modern Russian historians…Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems, dynasties, politburos, libertines, filmmakers, novelists, composers, poets, tsars and tyrants…superb, flamboyant and masterful.

This is one of the most interesting books I have read in recent years on the cultural history of Russia. yy’da Fransız etkisinde kalan ve neredeyse hiç Rusça eser verilmeyen bir dönemi kapatmıştır diyebiliriz. Russia's millionaires with their Mercedes and fur coats behave like the extravagant nobles of old; and the new social hierarchy is upholstered by snobbery: the Russian equivalents of Tatler and Vogue are supremely oblivious of the nation's poorer members.

I'm now contentedly exploring Zamoyski's 1812 about the fateful march on Moscow, listening to Glinka and developing a real appreciation of Pushkin, thanks in no small part to Mr Figes wonderful book. Natasha's Dance, which has been followed by his more recent work, The Whisperers, veers away from the 1861-1953 period on which so much has been written and opens up new lines of investigation to the amateur reader. tuhaf tarafı bu bölümde anlatılanların izlerini bir süredir tanıdığınız Rusların zihinlerinde de görebilirsiniz. La fel de necuprinse precum stepa inghitita cu nesat de catre caii inaripati ai unei troici fantastice.