wyszukanych pozycji: 5
The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825
ISBN: 9780875807478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of ...
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223,90 zł |
Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions
ISBN: 9780299220402 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a broad range of cultural phenomena, from the opposition between Russia and the West to the symbolic construction of space, from cinema to card playing, from the impact of theater on painting to the impact of landscape design on poetry. His insights have been particularly important in conceptualizing the creation of meaning and understanding the function of art and literature in society, and they...
One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the...
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215,78 zł |
The Ruler in the Garden; Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia
ISBN: 9783039111138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This monograph examines the contributions of landscape design to authority and to organization of public life in imperial Russia. Analyzing how tsars and nobles inscribed their political aspirations in the gardens they designed or inhabited, this study maps out a distinct trajectory in the meaning of landscape design. Based partly on archival documents, it explores the reasons for Catherine the Great s keen interest in landscape design. It reconstructs Grigorii Potemkin s attempts to transform the Crimea physically and symbolically into the garden of the empire. And it reveals the centrality...
This monograph examines the contributions of landscape design to authority and to organization of public life in imperial Russia. Analyzing how tsars ...
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524,93 zł |
Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia
ISBN: 9780875806518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia from Catherine the Great s construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky s elegiac meditations ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for leveling churches, post-Soviet Russia has only intensified the practice of massive destruction and reconstruction. "Architecture of Oblivion "examines the role of ruins in the development of Russia s historical consciousness from the 18th century to the present. Investigating the meaning and functions ruins have... Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia from Catherine the Great s construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brod... |
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223,90 zł |
On the Periphery of Europe, 1762-1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite
ISBN: 9780875807850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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182,25 zł |