Celé je to potiahnuté krutosťou, smútkom, najmä časti o Achmatovovej v Dome fontán a Cvetajevovej, dvoch veľkých ruských poetiek zomletých v mlyne Sovietskeho zväzu. The 19th Century high culture of Count Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky have captured worldwide imagination ever since, with their colourful characters of aristocrats, soldiers, prostitutes, drunks and down and outs, this combined with grand ideas of war, society and the individual make timeless classics.

but I think it is important to note that Figes is not Russian, and is in fact British by both birth and choice. Figes has gathered a lot of cultural information and organized it into one book, which is very helpful if you want to get a general review of Russia's culture without referring to multiple sources. Non può certo essere contenuta in una biblioteca, come gli “otto volumi sottili” che gli esuli mettevano nel loro bagaglio.It was 1998 and the questions I asked did not make much sense, but ask I did before getting on with writing my piece. The Russian language is very rich and has many foreign words especially French words because French was the language of the nobility of the elite. This would not have been a problem had Figes clarified, perhaps in the title, that his book was only purporting to cover 18th—20th century Russian culture, instead of simply ‘a cultural history of Russia,’ full stop.

Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems, dynasties, politburos, libertines, filmmakers, novelists, composers, poets, tsars and tyrants . Each chapter jumps back and forth between a number of highly important characters, placing them in their cultural and historical setting with great insight. For those of us who admire the Russian composers and authors, Figes' book gives us invaluable information about the context in which they lived and work. Natasha's Dance" by Orlando Figes is a great examination of Russia's cultural history over the years, from the founding of St.Klasik müzik severler için ilginç ayrıntılar mevcut ancak ben daha çok diğer alandaki etkileriyle ilgilendim. There were good and bad spirits in the Russian peasant world, and how a person died determined whether his spirit would also be good or bad.

Published first in 2002, the book takes its name from a scene in a giant of Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, in which Natasha Rostova’s innate Russian-ness breaks through the veneer of enlightened European thinking she has acquired, highlighting the dual-nature of Tsarist Russian society. But if writing straight historical fact is a precarious endeavour, even more so is writing a cultural history of a country to which you are not native, in which you have not spent a significant portion of your life, and about which much misinformation abounds. Sulla base di questa premessa, egli intende dimostrare l’esistenza di “un temperamento russo, un insieme di costumi e di credenze innate” che sarebbero il filo rosso della storia e della mentalità di questo popolo. Although it is indeed believed that Zvyozdochkin and Malyutin were inspired by East Asian culture such as the Honshu doll (which is not nested), this is not definitive, and sources differ in the descriptions of the original doll that served as the alleged ‘inspiration’ ranging from a hollow daruma doll portraying a Buddhist monk to a Shichi-Fukujin doll (where the Japanese god of longevity and happiness, Fukurokuju, was the outermost doll, and could be taken apart to reveal six smaller wooden figures representing the other gods). I had never contemplated the major point about Russian culture being so influenced by Russia's Asianness, especially as cleaved to by its peasantry over many centuries.Furthermore, the descriptions of old Moscow and its "Asiatic" and hedonistic customs, compared with formal St Petersburg, are really interesting. Bununla birlikte aydın kesimin köylülere, sade halka yönelmesi ve eserlerinde bunları konu edilmesi üzerinde durulmuş.