Rural Ruses
Illusion and Anxiety on the Russian Estate, 1775-1815
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4214133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Newlin (Oberlin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 295-319 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2501852 |
| OpenAlex | W2318542983 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Among the scores of unpublished manuscripts in fond 89 ("Bolotovykh") of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg is a partially filled album spanning a forty-year period from the early 1780s to the early 1820s. One of the many long-term projects of the multitalented memoirist, landscape designer, and agronomist Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov (1738-1833), the album was initiated at Bogoroditsk, the crown estate where he worked as bailiff from 1776-1797, and continued to garner new contributions for several decades after he retired to Dvorianinovo, his estate and birthplace in northern Tula province. It has been summarized by one of the few scholars who has studied it as "an extremely interesting mirror of provincial byt." The pretty and seemingly mimetic reflection of rural life that it provides is deceptive on a number of levels, however: for on the Russian estate during this period- and, as it turns Out, on the pages of the album itself-there is a good deal more going on than first meets the eye
Aesthetics · Art · Economic history · Estate · Illusion · Period (music · Political science · History · Law · Psychology · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends
| Highly cited | No |
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