The house in the garden : the Bakunin family and the romance of Russian idealism
"The House in the Garden explores the role played by domesticity in the making of Imperial Russian intellectual traditions. It tells the story of the Bakunins, a distinguished noble family who in 1779 chose to abandon their home in St. Petersburg for a rustic manor house in central Russia's Tver Province. At the time, the Russian government was encouraging its elite subjects to see their private lives as a forum for the representation of imperial virtues and norms. Drawing on the family's vast archive, Randolph describes the Bakunins' attempts to live up to this ideal and to convert their new home, Priamukhino, into an example of modern civilization. In particular, Randolph shows how the Bakunin home fostered the development of a group of charismatic young students from Moscow University, who in the 1830s sought to use their experiences at Priamukhino to reimagine themselves as agents of Russia's enlightenment."--Jacket
Biographie
xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801445422, 0801445426
75389886
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Aleksandr's idyll
La vie intérieure
Keeping time
Charades and devotions
A few moments from the life of Nikolai Stankevich
Mikhail and the invisible church
Varvara's liberation
Belinsky
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