Olga Petri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Petri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Petri |
| SIGNATURE | PETRI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5841-2863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin‐de‐siècle St Petersburg
In this paper, I suggest a new way of looking at the aesthetically motivated invitation of the putative wild into the inner sanctum of human artifice, the domestic sphere. I use the urban historical geography of Russia as my example. Rather than interpreting such interventions as simply the transplantation of the wild in time and space, the biological recovery of an often imaginary rural past, I argue that the paradoxes of what I call ‘domestic r…
Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–1915
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, trotting racing had become a popular urban pastime in imperial Russia, largely due to the Imperial St. Petersburg Society of Trotting Horse Breeding. Founded in 1860, this semi-state organization ran tri-annual racing events, managed the totalizator – a pari-mutuel betting system – and invested in nationwide breeding programmes. It notably championed the Orlov Trotter, a famous Russian horse breed origin…
Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
Journal Article Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse Get access Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [2019]. Pp. xii + 343. £25.49. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-1976-5167-4 Olga Petri Olga Petri University of Cambridge [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Histor…
From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir: Notes on the Unnatural History of Birdsong
Birdsong is familiar but enigmatic: to some nothing but mechanical “instinct,” but so excessively exuberant that enthusiasts have linked the songs of birds to the development of the aesthetic sense. Where medieval scholars once saw the origins of music in the imitation of nature, by the Enlightenment birdsong was banished in the anthropocentric definition of art. In contrast to the philosophers, this paper focusses on human intervention in birdso…
Song of the Ovsîanka: Enhanced Nature of the Urban Canary in Imperial St. Petersburg (1880–1900)
This article explores a stylized version of “natural” birdsong as an element of the soundscape of a historical city, late-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. From 1880 to 1900, canaries were brought to the city in great numbers from hatcheries located in the Russian countryside. Their song was the ovsîanka , a mix of melodies acquired from wild Russian birds. This song reflects “enhanced nature,” linking human intentionality to the agency of a non…
Discipline and Discretionary Power in Policing Homosexuality in Late Imperial St. Petersburg
This article explores queer sexual policing in late Imperial St. Petersburg (c.1900-1917). The focus is on the street-level constables who bore the principal responsibility for policing male homosexual offenses in the city's public and semi-public spaces. This emphasis on the street-level policing of homosexuality contrasts with other discussions of gay urban history and the oppression of queer men by the authorities. The article draws on new evi…
At the bathhouse: Municipal reform and the bathing commons in late imperial St. Petersburg
A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin‐de‐siècle St Petersburg
In this paper, I suggest a new way of looking at the aesthetically motivated invitation of the putative wild into the inner sanctum of human artifice, the domestic sphere. I use the urban historical geography of Russia as my example. Rather than interpreting such interventions as simply the transplantation of the wild in time and space, the biological recovery of an often imaginary rural past, I argue that the paradoxes of what I call ‘domestic r…
At the bathhouse: Municipal reform and the bathing commons in late imperial St. Petersburg
From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir: Notes on the Unnatural History of Birdsong
Birdsong is familiar but enigmatic: to some nothing but mechanical “instinct,” but so excessively exuberant that enthusiasts have linked the songs of birds to the development of the aesthetic sense. Where medieval scholars once saw the origins of music in the imitation of nature, by the Enlightenment birdsong was banished in the anthropocentric definition of art. In contrast to the philosophers, this paper focusses on human intervention in birdso…
Discipline and Discretionary Power in Policing Homosexuality in Late Imperial St. Petersburg
This article explores queer sexual policing in late Imperial St. Petersburg (c.1900-1917). The focus is on the street-level constables who bore the principal responsibility for policing male homosexual offenses in the city's public and semi-public spaces. This emphasis on the street-level policing of homosexuality contrasts with other discussions of gay urban history and the oppression of queer men by the authorities. The article draws on new evi…
At the bathhouse: Municipal reform and the bathing commons in late imperial St. Petersburg
Song of the Ovsîanka: Enhanced Nature of the Urban Canary in Imperial St. Petersburg (1880–1900)
This article explores a stylized version of “natural” birdsong as an element of the soundscape of a historical city, late-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. From 1880 to 1900, canaries were brought to the city in great numbers from hatcheries located in the Russian countryside. Their song was the ovsîanka , a mix of melodies acquired from wild Russian birds. This song reflects “enhanced nature,” linking human intentionality to the agency of a non…
Discipline and Discretionary Power in Policing Homosexuality in Late Imperial St. Petersburg
This article explores queer sexual policing in late Imperial St. Petersburg (c.1900-1917). The focus is on the street-level constables who bore the principal responsibility for policing male homosexual offenses in the city's public and semi-public spaces. This emphasis on the street-level policing of homosexuality contrasts with other discussions of gay urban history and the oppression of queer men by the authorities. The article draws on new evi…
From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir: Notes on the Unnatural History of Birdsong
Birdsong is familiar but enigmatic: to some nothing but mechanical “instinct,” but so excessively exuberant that enthusiasts have linked the songs of birds to the development of the aesthetic sense. Where medieval scholars once saw the origins of music in the imitation of nature, by the Enlightenment birdsong was banished in the anthropocentric definition of art. In contrast to the philosophers, this paper focusses on human intervention in birdso…
Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–1915
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, trotting racing had become a popular urban pastime in imperial Russia, largely due to the Imperial St. Petersburg Society of Trotting Horse Breeding. Founded in 1860, this semi-state organization ran tri-annual racing events, managed the totalizator – a pari-mutuel betting system – and invested in nationwide breeding programmes. It notably championed the Orlov Trotter, a famous Russian horse breed origin…
Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
Journal Article Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse Get access Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [2019]. Pp. xii + 343. £25.49. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-1976-5167-4 Olga Petri Olga Petri University of Cambridge [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Histor…
A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin‐de‐siècle St Petersburg
In this paper, I suggest a new way of looking at the aesthetically motivated invitation of the putative wild into the inner sanctum of human artifice, the domestic sphere. I use the urban historical geography of Russia as my example. Rather than interpreting such interventions as simply the transplantation of the wild in time and space, the biological recovery of an often imaginary rural past, I argue that the paradoxes of what I call ‘domestic r…
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