The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825 : Public Role and Subjective Self.

Cover -- The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 INTERNALIZING PUBLIC ROLES: ZEALOUS SERVICEMEN AND CURIOUS NOBLEMEN -- From Passions to Ambitions: Human Nature and Governance from Peter I to the Emancipation of the Nobility -- Curiosity, Utility, Pleasure: Official Discourses of Natural Philosophy and Their Alternatives in Russia in the Run-up to 1762 -- 2 THE COURT AND THE FAMILY: CUCKOLDED HUSBANDS AND LONELY WIVES -- Dramatic Conflicts and Social Performance at the Russian Court in the 1760s: A Sociocultural Perspective on Marital Infidelity -- Performing Womanhood in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Cultural Identity in the Letters of Ekaterina Rumiantseva and Dar'ia Saltykova -- 3 THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY: BETWEEN OSTENTATION AND RATIONALIZATION -- The Practice of Personal Finance and the Problem of Debt among the Noble Elite in Eighteenth-Century Russia -- Self-fashioning, Estate Design, and Agricultural Improvement: 1.1. Bariatinskii's Enlightened Reforms of Country Living -- 4 OFFICERS OFF THE BATTLEFIELD: MANAGERS AND THINKERS -- Warriors in Peace: The Everyday Life of Russian Officers at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- The Political Language of the Europeanized Military Elite in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Unpublished Diary and Letters of Vasilii Viazemskii -- 5 ALTERNATIVE SOCIABILITIES AND SPIRITUALITIES: THE LODGE AND THE ENGLISH CLUB -- The Emotional Culture of Moscow Rosicrucians: An Experiment in Alternative Europeanization -- The Moscow English Club and the Public Sphere in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia -- 6 EXPERIENCING THE OTHER: FOREIGNERS AND COACHMEN.

Russian Prince vs. "German Swine": Public Slap in the Face, Émigrés, and Local Elites in St. Petersburg at the Time of the French Revolution -- Between Friends, the Coachman: Enlightenment Encounters Empire in Russia's Eighteenth Century -- 7 THE RADICAL BIFURCATION: THE WAY TO EUROPE AND TO THE CONVENT -- The Instability of Time and Plurality of Selves at Court and in Society -- Sentimental Piety and Orthodox Asceticism: The Case of Nun Serafima -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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