Entertaining tsarist Russia : tales, songs, plays, movies, jokes, ads, and images from Russian urban life, 1779-1917 / edited by James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Von Geldern, James.

McReynolds, Louise, 1952-

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies Entertaining tsarist Russia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Russia.

Popular culture.

Russian literature--18th century.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--19th century.

Popular culture--18th century--Russia.

Russia--Civilization--18th century.

Russia.

Russia--Civilization--1801-1917.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 394 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Part I: The Heyday of Absolutism, Late Eighteenth Century-1825

Anecdotes about Balakirev (Traditional Tales)

Vasily Berezaisky, Tales of the Ancient Poshekhonians (1798)

Teller of Old Moscow Tales, The Merry Old Fellow (1790)

Martin Zadek, The Ancient and Modern Divinatory Oracle (1821)

Guak, or Unbounded Devotion: A Knightly Tale (18th century)

The Tale of Vanka Kain (1815)

A. A. Shakhovskoi, The New Sterne (1805)

"Traditional Songs" (Late 18th century)*

Part II: Commerce Asserts Its Mediating Presence, 1825-1860

Nikolai Polevoi, Ermak Timofeich (1845)

Pavel Grigoriev, Jr., Filatka and Miroshka the Rivals (1833)

Faddei Bulgarin, Ivan Vyzhigin (1829)

Petr Ershov, The Little Humpbacked Horse (1834)

Aleksandra Ishimova, The History of Russia Told for Children (1838)

Nikolai Zriakhov, The Battle of the Russians with the Kabardinians (1842)

Etiquette Manuals (1849-1911)

Street Types, Illustrations by M. Pikki and K. Richau (1860)

Aleksei Lvov, God Save the Tsar (1833)*

Evgeny Grebenka, Dark Eyes (1843)*

N. Sokolov, The Great Moscow Fire (1850)*

Aleksandr Ammosov and O. Kh. Agrenova-Slavianskaia, Elegy (Khas-Bulat) (1858)*

Part III: Great Reforms and the Expansion of Civic Space, 1861-1881

Balagan Advertisements, Malafeev Theater (1883)

Vsevolod Krestovsky, The Slums of Petersburg (1864)

How the Russian Gave It Hot to a German (1869)

Fedor Ivanich Kuz'ma, Oh Those Yaroslavites, What a Fine Folk! (1868)

The Slums of the Female Heart (1870)

Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, Correspondence from the Russo-Turkish War (1876-77)

M. Evstigneev, War Stories from the Present-Day War with the Turks (1879)

L. A. Tikhomirov, Where Is It Better? (1873)

A Flask of Hooch (1882)

Gypsy Romances*

Part IV: Political Stagnation vs. Rapid Industrialization, 1882-1905

B. S. Borisov and V. A. Kriger, Scenes from a Third-Class Car (recorded circa 1910)*

M. L. Lentovsky, Sarah Bernhardt (1891)

V. P. Valentinov, The Queen of Diamonds (1908-1910)

Anecdotes (1840-1917)

Moscow Court Reporting, The Moscow Sheet (Early 1880's)

Aleksei Pazukhin, The Terrible Wedding Night (1883)

The Terrible Bandit Churkin (1885)

N. A. Leikin, Where the Oranges Ripen (1892)

I. I. Miasnitsky, Messrs. Businessmen (1890's)

The Diary of Maria Bashkirtseva (1889)

V. M. Doroshevich, Ivanov Pavel (1901)

Maxim Gorky, Song of The Stormy Petrel (1901)

M. D. Klefortov, Light-Fingered Sonya (1903)

Revolutionary Songs (Late 19th Century)*

Part V: The Eruption of Commercial Culture in the Interrevolutionary Years, 1906-1917

Vaudeville Skits (1905-1910)*

Why Was I Born into This World? Tobolsk Prison Song (1908)*

K[onstantin] R[omanov], The Poor Fellow Died (circa 1910)*

Marusia Poisoned Herself (1915)*

Olga Gridina, Russian Sob Sister (1910)

Al. Aleksandrovsky, How the Lasses Burned a Lad in the Stove (1911)

V. I. Kryzhanovskaia, The Wrath of God (1909)

Lidiia Charskaia, The Little Siberian Girl (Sibirochka) (1910)

M. N. Volkonsky, The African Princess (Vampuka) (1907)

N. N. Breshko-Breshkovsky, Gladiators of Our Times (1909)

Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanin (1908)

Anastasia Verbitskaia, The Keys to Happiness (1913)

Count Amori, The Vanquished (1912)

Petr Chardynin, Do You Remember? (1915)*

E. A. Nagrodskaia, The Wrath of Dionysus (1910)

Count Amori, The Countess-Actress (1916)

Nat Pinkerton, King of Detectives, The Bloody Talisman (1915)

The Headlands of Manchuria (1906-1908)*

The Heroic Feat of the Don Cossack Kuzma Firsovich Kriuchkov (1914)

Sergei Sokolsky, Jackals (1916)

V. V. Ramazanov, Rasputin's Nighttime Orgies (1917)

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780253334091

0253334098

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05344 hdl