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Entertaining tsarist Russia: tales, songs, plays, movies, jokes, ads, and images from Russian urban life, 1779-1917
James. Von Geldern and Louise McReynolds-
Frontmatter
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
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INTRODUCTION (page xiii)
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NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION (page xxvii)
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Part I: The Heyday of Absolutism, Late Eighteenth Century-1825
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Anecdotes about Balakirev (Traditional Tales) (page 4)
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Vasily Berezaisky, Tales of the Ancient Poshekhonians (1798) (page 6)
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Teller of Old Moscow Tales, The Merry Old Fellow (1790) (page 10)
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Martin Zadek, The Ancient and Modern Divinatory Oracle (1821) (page 12)
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Guak, or Unbounded Devotion: A Knightly Tale (18th century) (page 15)
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The Tale of Vanka Kain (1815) (page 23)
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A. A. Shakhovskoi, The New Sterne (1805) (page 31)
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"Traditional Songs" (Late 18th century)* (page 41)
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Part II: Commerce Asserts Its Mediating Presence, 1825-1860
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Nikolai Polevoi, Ermak Timofeich (1845) (page 49)
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Pavel Grigoriev, Jr., Filatka and Miroshka the Rivals (1833) (page 57)
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Faddei Bulgarin, Ivan Vyzhigin (1829) (page 65)
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Petr Ershov, The Little Humpbacked Horse (1834) (page 74)
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Aleksandra Ishimova, The History of Russia Told for Children (1838) (page 77)
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Nikolai Zriakhov, The Battle of the Russians with the Kabardinians (1842) (page 83)
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Etiquette Manuals (1849-1911) (page 93)
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Street Types, Illustrations by M. Pikki and K. Richau (1860) (page 105)
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Aleksei Lvov, God Save the Tsar (1833)* (page 107)
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Evgeny Grebenka, Dark Eyes (1843)* (page 108)
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N. Sokolov, The Great Moscow Fire (1850)* (page 109)
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Aleksandr Ammosov and O. Kh. Agrenova-Slavianskaia, Elegy (Khas-Bulat) (1858)* (page 111)
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Part III: Great Reforms and the Expansion of Civic Space, 1861-1881
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Balagan Advertisements, Malafeev Theater (1883) (page 119)
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Vsevolod Krestovsky, The Slums of Petersburg (1864) (page 121)
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How the Russian Gave It Hot to a German (1869) (page 129)
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Fedor Ivanich Kuz'ma, Oh Those Yaroslavites, What a Fine Folk! (1868) (page 135)
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The Slums of the Female Heart (1870) (page 141)
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, Correspondence from the Russo-Turkish War (1876-77) (page 149)
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M. Evstigneev, War Stories from the Present-Day War with the Turks (1879) (page 154)
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L. A. Tikhomirov, Where Is It Better? (1873) (page 156)
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A Flask of Hooch (1882) (page 166)
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Gypsy Romances* (page 173)
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Part IV: Political Stagnation vs. Rapid Industrialization, 1882-1905
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B. S. Borisov and V. A. Kriger, Scenes from a Third-Class Car (recorded circa 1910)* (page 183)
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M. L. Lentovsky, Sarah Bernhardt (1891) (page 186)
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V. P. Valentinov, The Queen of Diamonds (1908-1910) (page 198)
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Anecdotes (1840-1917) (page 203)
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Moscow Court Reporting, The Moscow Sheet (Early 1880s) (page 212)
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Aleksei Pazukhin, The Terrible Wedding Night (1883) (page 217)
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The Terrible Bandit Churkin (1885) (page 221)
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N. A. Leikin, Where the Oranges Ripen (1892) (page 230)
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I. I. Miasnitsky, Messrs. Businessmen (1890s) (page 239)
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The Diary of Maria Bashkirtseva (1889) (page 244)
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V. M. Doroshevich, Ivanov Pavel (1901) (page 250)
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Maxim Gorky, Song of The Stormy Petrel (1901) (page 259)
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M. D. Klefortov, Light-Fingered Sonya (1903) (page 261)
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Revolutionary Songs (Late 19th Century)* (page 269)
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Part V: The Eruption of Commercial Culture in the Interrevolutionary Years, 1906-1917
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Vaudeville Skits (1905-1910)* (page 278)
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Why Was I Born into This World? Tobolsk Prison Song (1908)* (page 285)
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K[onstantin] R[omanov], The Poor Fellow Died (circa 1910)* (page 286)
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Marusia Poisoned Herself (1915)* (page 290)
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Olga Gridina, Russian Sob Sister (1910) (page 292)
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Al. Aleksandrovsky, How the Lasses Burned a Lad in the Stove (1911) (page 295)
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V. I. Kryzhanovskaia, The Wrath of God (1909) (page 299)
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Lidiia Charskaia, The Little Siberian Girl (Sibirochka) (1910) (page 306)
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M. N. Volkonsky, The African Princess (Vampuka) (1907) (page 316)
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N. N. Breshko-Breshkovsky, Gladiators of Our Times (1909) (page 323)
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Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanin (1908) (page 329)
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Anastasia Verbitskaia, The Keys to Happiness (1913) (page 333)
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Count Amori, The Vanquished (1912) (page 337)
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Petr Chardynin, Do You Remember? (1915)* (page 339)
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E. A. Nagrodskaia, The Wrath of Dionysus (1910) (page 341)
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Count Amori, The Countess-Actress (1916) (page 349)
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Nat Pinkerton, King of Detectives, The Bloody Talisman (1915) (page 362)
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The Headlands of Manchuria (1906-1908)* (page 377)
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The Heroic Feat of the Don Cossack Kuzma Firsovich Kriuchkov (1914) (page 379)
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Sergei Sokolsky, Jackals (1916) (page 383)
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V. V. Ramazanov, Rasputin's Nighttime Orgies (1917) (page 385)
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GLOSSARY (page 391)
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 393)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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SEEJ | 43.4 (Winter, 1999): 740-741 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/309446 |
JMH | 72.4 (Dec. 2000): 1070-1072 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3079643 |
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Published: c1998
Publisher: Indiana University Press
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