Serfdom, society, and the arts in imperial Russia, the pleasure and the power, Richard Stites
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Serfdom, society, and the arts in imperial Russia, the pleasure and the power, Richard Stites
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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platesillustrationsportraits
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Serfdom, society, and the arts in imperial Russia
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bibliography
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156203194
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Richard Stites
Sub title
the pleasure and the power
Summary
"Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society's value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial towns and manor houses engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town and country in genre scenes of everyday life. Serf actors on loan from their masters brought naturalistic acting from provincial theaters to the imperial stages. Stites's detailed book offers new perspectives on the origins of Russia's nineteenth-century artistic prowess."--, Provided by Publisher
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