Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment by Rostislavov, Dmitrii Ivanovich
Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment by Rostislavov, Dmitrii Ivanovich

Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment

The memoir of Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov--a mathematician, teacher, and social critic--offers a rare firsthand view of provincial...
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Author: Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment by Rostislavov, Dmitrii Ivanovich

Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment

CHF 70.96
Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment by Rostislavov, Dmitrii Ivanovich

Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment

CHF 70.96
Author: Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

The memoir of Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov--a mathematician, teacher, and social critic--offers a rare firsthand view of provincial Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Translated into English for the first time, these extraordinary observations reveal much about daily village life and the cultural milieu of the time. An acute observer, Rostislavov discusses social and ethnic relationships as well as matters pertaining to education, law enforcement, religious practice, and folk beliefs.

Rostislavov's account of his own education is a harrowing description of coming of age in a Darwinian world of violence and cruelty. Coarse, impoverished schoolboys, brutal and corrupt teachers, and callous landlords formed a harsh environment characterized by sadistic corporal punishment and bitter class hatreds. Variously humorous, elegiac, and passionate, his narrative shows why even those from relatively privileged backgrounds came to detest the authoritarian order of the old regime.

In a probing analysis of the Russian national order, Rostislavov found the twin evils facing Russia to be the coarseness of traditional society and the authoritarianism and corruption of the regime and its representatives. Russia's hope for the future, he believed, lay with cultural changes that would ultimately raise the society's moral level. Illustrations, maps, and an introduction illuminating the historical context accompany this remarkable account of life in provincial Russia.

Author: Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 279
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.30w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780875805924
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 533

About the Author

Alexander Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768-1870 (2022); Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013); and Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997).


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