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Author : N. M. Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258030544
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790 written by N. M. Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. M. Karamzin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125049
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790 written by N. M. Karamzin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1789-90, Nicholai Mikhailovich Karamzin, a young poet and short-story writer, toured Western Europe. On his return, he distilled his impressions in the form of travel letters. Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1791-1801, in which Karamzin’s impressions are woven into a wealth of information about Western European society and culture that he derived from wide reading, became a favorite of readers and was widely imitated. The most influential prose stylist of the eighteenth century, Karamzin shaped the development of the Russian literary language, introducing many Gallicisms to supplant Slavonic-derived words and idioms and breaking down the classicist canons of isolated language styles.
Author : Nikolaj Mihajlovič Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790 written by Nikolaj Mihajlovič Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolaj Mihajlovǐc Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveler written by Nikolaj Mihajlovǐc Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Николай Михайлович Карамзин
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0837187257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789-1790 written by Николай Михайлович Карамзин and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolaj Mihajlovič Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveler written by Nikolaj Mihajlovič Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveller 1789-1790 written by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. N. Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveller 1789-1790 written by M. N. Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Russian Traveller, 1789-1790 written by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.K. Wilson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401019975
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Literary Travelogue written by R.K. Wilson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this study is to trace the development of the literary travel memoir in Russia during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth. Having indicated the prove nances of this genre in Western Europe, I shall evaluate its role in Russian literary history. Because this study is not intended to be an historical survey of all significant travel works that appeared in Russia, I shall pass over such early pioneer travelers as the Abbot Daniil who visited Palestine at the beginning of the twelfth century and recorded for his countrymen detailed descriptions of the Holy places, or the merchant, Afanasij Nikitin, whose travel notes concerning a trip to India are preserved in a fifteenth century chronicle. The travel genre, which had become enormously popular in eight eenth century Western Europe,l was cleverly exploited by Fonvizin, Radishchev, and Karamzin to expound to the Russian reading public certain important notions on literary theory, on society (foreign and domestic), on themselves, and on nature. The travel genre - then as now a flexible instrument for transmitting, by means of diary-style narrative, information about distant, often exotic people and place- had been adapted by Sterne and others to themes having little relation to a conventional journey. The Russians were quick to grasp the genre's literary as well as its polemical possibilities, and influenced by Western models, they too used it to convey theoretical assertions on a variety of SUbjects.
Author : Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360613
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought written by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Peter the Great casts a long shadow in modern Russian thought and culture. As important to modern Russia as the French Revolution is to France and the Reformation is to Germany, the image of this militaristic ruler, founder of St Petersburg, and czar of all Russia from 1689-1725 has been central to Russian history, literature, and art since the early 1700s.; Riasanovsky, one of the foremost historians of Russia, traces the development of this image from 1700 to the present. Drawing examples from Russian historical accounts, literature, folklore, and the arts, he shows how the use of the image of Peter has reflected the changing cultural and political values of the Russian people.
Author : Jacob Teunis Harskamp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194037
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Despondency written by Jacob Teunis Harskamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a text-orientated approach, this study presents a rich mosaic depicting a tradition of European socio-cultural criticism since the French Revolution. Accepting the inevitability of technological advance, critics rejected the proud assumption of progress and stressed the negatives instead.
Author : Derek Offord
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402039093
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Journeys to a Graveyard written by Derek Offord and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.
Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582453
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Smell in Eighteenth-Century England written by William Tullett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.
Author : Fiona Hill
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815796188
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Siberian Curse written by Fiona Hill and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in the West and in Russia, The Siberian Curse explains why Russia's greatest assets––its gigantic size and Siberia's natural resources––are now the source of one its greatest weaknesses. For seventy years, driven by ideological zeal and the imperative to colonize and industrialize its vast frontiers, communist planners forced people to live in Siberia. They did this in true totalitarian fashion by using the GULAG prison system and slave labor to build huge factories and million-person cities to support them. Today, tens of millions of people and thousands of large-scale industrial enterprises languish in the cold and distant places communist planners put them––not where market forces or free choice would have placed them. Russian leaders still believe that an industrialized Siberia is the key to Russia's prosperity. As a result, the country is burdened by the ever-increasing costs of subsidizing economic activity in some of the most forbidding places on the planet. Russia pays a steep price for continuing this folly––it wastes the very resources it needs to recover from the ravages of communism. Hill and Gaddy contend that Russia's future prosperity requires that it finally throw off the shackles of its Soviet past, by shrinking Siberia's cities. Only by facilitating the relocation of population to western Russia, closer to Europe and its markets, can Russia achieve sustainable economic growth. Unfortunately for Russia, there is no historical precedent for shrinking cities on the scale that will be required. Downsizing Siberia will be a costly and wrenching proce
Author : R. R. Palmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082012X
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2 written by R. R. Palmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, although each distinctive in its way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Volume 1 of this distinguished two-volume work, "The Challenge," received critical accolades throughout the world. It was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1960 and was called "one of the classic works of American historical scholarship" (Key Reporter) and a book which "will enlarge and clarify our understanding of modern Western history. It will re-emphasize the strength and vitality of the roots that supported the growth of democracy in the Old and New Worlds" (New York Times). "Occasionally a historical work appears which, by synthesis of much previous specialized work and by intelligent reflection upon the whole, makes events of the past click into a new pattern and assume fresh meaning. Professor Palmer's book is such a work" (American Historical Review). "The Challenge" took the story to the eve of the French Revolutionary wars; Volume 2, "The Struggle" continues the account to 1800.
Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393329011
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.
