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By fables alone : literature and state ideology in late eighteenth - and early-nineteenth-century Russia
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Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin's seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in...
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin's seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including "The People's War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807" and "Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii's Epistle 'To Emperor Alexander' and Christian Universalism."
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- Andrei Zorin ; translations by Marcus C. Levitt with Nicole Monnier and Daniel Schlaffy ; book design by Ivan Grave
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014
- ©2014
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- 1 online resource (408 p.)
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- 9781618116697, 161811669X, 9781618113573, 1618113577, 1618113461
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- on1135578561, ocn922977998
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- From the Author / Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Russians as Greeks: Catherine II's "Greek Project" and the Russian Ode of the 1760s-70s -- 2. The Image of the Enemy: V. P. Petrov's "Ode on the Conclusion of Peace with the Ottoman Porte" and the Emergence of the Mythology of a Global Conspiracy against Russia -- 3. Eden in Taurus: The "Crimean Myth" in Russian Culture of the 1780s-90s -- 4. Eden in the Tauride Palace: Potemkin's Last Project -- 5. The People's War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807 -- 6. Enemy of the People: M. M. Speranskii's Fall and the Mythology of Treason in Social and Literary Consciousness, 1809-1812 -- 7. War and Quasi Peace: The Character and Goal of the War in 1812-1814 in the Interpretation of A. S. Shishkov and Archimandrite Filaret -- 8. Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii's Epistle "To Emperor Alexander" and Christian Universalism -- 9. "Star of the East": The Holy Alliance and European Mysticism -- 10. The Cherished Triad: S. S. Uvarov's Memorandum of 1832 and the Development of the Doctrine "Orthodoxy-Autocracy-Nationality". -- Works Cited -- Index