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Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of
Professor Andrei Zorin's seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This
collection of essays includes several that have never before
appeared in English, including "The People's War: The Time of
Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807" and "Holy Alliances: V.
A. Zhukovskii's Epistle 'To Emperor Alexander' and Christian
Universalism."
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of
Professor Andrei Zorin's seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This
collection of essays includes several that have never before
appeared in English, including "The People's War: The Time of
Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807" and "Holy Alliances: V.
A. Zhukovskii's Epistle 'To Emperor Alexander' and Christian
Universalism."
The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian
emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature
were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling'
that an educated and Europeanised Russian was supposed to
interiorize and reproduce. The case study in the centre of the
study is the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev
(1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and
an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles
and models he cherished. Brought up on the patterns of emotions he
found in works of Rousseau, Sterne, and the authors of Sturm and
Drang, he soon found them too narrow for his individuality, and
navigated towards a more mature nineteenth century Romanticism, but
was not able to make this transition. Turgenev experimented not so
much in his literary work as in his life. The reconstruction of
this convoluted and enigmatic case is based on archival research
and innovative analysis of individual emotional experience.
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself
three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At
that time he managed only the first. The writer’s momentous life
would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the
death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class
into which he had been born. Andrei Zorin skilfully pieces together
Tolstoy’s life, offering an account of the novelist’s deepest
feelings and motives, and a brilliant interpretation of his major
works, including the celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna
Karenina.
Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated
the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western
countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of
their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe,
1762-1825, Andreas Schoenle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal
manifestations of Europeanization for Russian elites in their daily
lives, through the import of material culture, the adoption of
certain social practices, travel, reading patterns, and artistic
consumption. The authors consider five major sites of
Europeanization: court culture, religion, education, literature,
and provincial life. The Europeanization of the Russian elite
paradoxically strengthened its pride in its Russianness, precisely
because it participated in networks of interaction and exchange
with European elites and shared in their linguistic and cultural
capital. In this way, Europeanization generated forms of
sociability that helped the elite consolidate its corporate
identity as distinct from court society and also from the people.
The Europeanization of Russia was uniquely intense, complex, and
pervasive, as it aimed not only to emulate forms of behavior, but
to forge an elite that was intrinsically European, while remaining
Russian. The second of a two-volume project (the first is a
multi-authored collection of case studies), this insightful study
will appeal to scholars and students of Russian and East European
history and culture, as well as those interested in transnational
processes.
This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the
subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite
between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case
studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's worldview,
complex identities, conflicting loyalties, and evolving habits. The
studies explore the institutions that shaped these nobles, their
attitude to state service, the changing patterns of their family
life, their emotional world, religious beliefs, and sense of time.
The creation of a Europeanized elite in Russia was a
state-initiated project that aimed to overcome the presumed
"backwardness" of the country. The evolution of this social group
in its relations to political authority provides insight into the
fraught identity of a country developing on the geopolitical
periphery of Europe. In contrast to postcolonial studies that
explore the imposition of political, social, and cultural
structures on colonized societies, this multidisciplinary volume
explores the patterns of behavior and emotion that emerge from the
processes of self-Europeanization. The Europeanized Elite in
Russia, 1762-1825, will appeal to scholars and general readers
interested in Russian history and culture, particularly in light of
current political debates about globalization and widening social
inequality in Europe.
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