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An Ordinary Marriage - The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Paperback)
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An Ordinary Marriage - The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Paperback)
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An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs,
middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial
Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this
family, Natalia, oversaw serf labor and managed finances while the
father, Andrei, raised the children, at a time when domestic
ideology advocating a woman's place in the home was at its height
in European advice manuals. But Andrei Chikhachev defined
masculinity as a realm of intellectualism; the father could be in
charge of moral education, defined as an intellectual task.
Managing estates that often barely yielded a livable income was a
practical task and therefore considered less elevated, though still
vitally important to the family's interests. Thus estate management
was available to gentry women like Natalia Chikhacheva, and the
fact that it inevitably expanded their realm of influence and
opportunity (within the limits of their estates), and that it
increased their centrality to the family's material security
relative to their social counterparts to the west, was accidental.
An Ordinary Marriage examines the daily activities and ideas of the
family based on multiple overlapping diaries and informal
correspondence by the husband, wife, and son of the family, as well
as the wife's brother. No such cache of intimate Russian family
documents has ever previously been studied in such depth. The
family's relative obscurity (with no pretensions to fame, wealth,
or influence) and the presence of a woman's private documents are
especially unusual in any context. The book considers the
Chikhachevs' social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness
and death, as well as their marital roles and their reception of
major ideas of their time, such as domesticity, Enlightenment,
sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
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