The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825 Public Role and Subjective Self.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schönle, Andreas
Other Authors:	Zorin, Andrei, Evstratov, Alexei
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:	NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Subjects:	1700-1799 Elite (Social sciences) > Russia > History > 18th century. Elite (Social sciences) Russia History
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Table of Contents:

Cover
The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration and Dates
INTRODUCTION
1 INTERNALIZING PUBLIC ROLES: ZEALOUS SERVICEMEN AND CURIOUS NOBLEMEN
From Passions to Ambitions: Human Nature and Governance from Peter I to the Emancipation of the Nobility
Curiosity, Utility, Pleasure: Official Discourses of Natural Philosophy and Their Alternatives in Russia in the Run-up to 1762
2 THE COURT AND THE FAMILY: CUCKOLDED HUSBANDS AND LONELY WIVES
Dramatic Conflicts and Social Performance at the Russian Court in the 1760s: A Sociocultural Perspective on Marital Infidelity
Performing Womanhood in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Cultural Identity in the Letters of Ekaterina Rumiantseva and Dar'ia Saltykova
3 THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY: BETWEEN OSTENTATION AND RATIONALIZATION
The Practice of Personal Finance and the Problem of Debt among the Noble Elite in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Self-fashioning, Estate Design, and Agricultural Improvement: 1.1. Bariatinskii's Enlightened Reforms of Country Living
4 OFFICERS OFF THE BATTLEFIELD: MANAGERS AND THINKERS
Warriors in Peace: The Everyday Life of Russian Officers at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
The Political Language of the Europeanized Military Elite in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Unpublished Diary and Letters of Vasilii Viazemskii
5 ALTERNATIVE SOCIABILITIES AND SPIRITUALITIES: THE LODGE AND THE ENGLISH CLUB
The Emotional Culture of Moscow Rosicrucians: An Experiment in Alternative Europeanization
The Moscow English Club and the Public Sphere in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia
6 EXPERIENCING THE OTHER: FOREIGNERS AND COACHMEN
Russian Prince vs. ""German Swine"": Public Slap in the Face, Émigrés, and Local Elites in St. Petersburg at the Time of the French Revolution
Between Friends, the Coachman: Enlightenment Encounters Empire in Russia's Eighteenth Century
7 THE RADICAL BIFURCATION: THE WAY TO EUROPE AND TO THE CONVENT
The Instability of Time and Plurality of Selves at Court and in Society
Sentimental Piety and Orthodox Asceticism: The Case of Nun Serafima
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825 Public Role and Subjective Self.

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