An ordinary marriage : the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia /
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Subjects: |
Gentry
> Russia (Federation)
> Vladimirskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡ (R.S.F.S.R.)
> Social life and customs
> 19th century.
Women in real estate
> Russia (Federation)
> Vladimirskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡ (R.S.F.S.R.)
> History
> 19th century.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A provincial world
- Society
- The village
- Estate management
- Sociability, charity, and leisure
- Illness, grief and death
- Domesticity and motherhood
- The education of Aleksei
- Education for all
- The landscape of ideas.