An ordinary marriage: the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antonova, Katherine Pickering, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--History--19th century--Russia (Federation)--Vladimirskaëiìa gubernåiëiìa.

Families.

Gentry--History--19th century--Vladimirskaëiìa gubernåiëiìa--Russia (Federation).

Gentry.

Gentry--Social life and customs--19th century--Russia (Federation)--Vladimirskaëiìa gubernåiëiìa.

Marriage--History--19th century--Vladimirskaëiìa gubernåiëiìa--Russia (Federation).

Marriage.

Sex role--History--19th century--Russia.

Sex role.

Women in real estate--History--19th century--Vladimirskaëiìa gubernåiëiìa--Russia (Federation).

Women in real estate.

Real estate management--History--19th century--Vladimirskaëiìa gubernåiëiìa--Russia (Federation).

Real estate management.

Chikhachev family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).