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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 c1998 © Indiana University Press
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  • 9780253211958 (paper)
  • 9780253334077 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: Russia & Eastern
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  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
  • INTRODUCTION (page xiii)
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION (page xxvii)
  • Part I: The Heyday of Absolutism, Late Eighteenth Century-1825
    • Anecdotes about Balakirev (Traditional Tales) (page 4)
    • Vasily Berezaisky, Tales of the Ancient Poshekhonians (1798) (page 6)
    • Teller of Old Moscow Tales, The Merry Old Fellow (1790) (page 10)
    • Martin Zadek, The Ancient and Modern Divinatory Oracle (1821) (page 12)
    • Guak, or Unbounded Devotion: A Knightly Tale (18th century) (page 15)
    • The Tale of Vanka Kain (1815) (page 23)
    • A. A. Shakhovskoi, The New Sterne (1805) (page 31)
    • "Traditional Songs" (Late 18th century)* (page 41)
  • Part II: Commerce Asserts Its Mediating Presence, 1825-1860
    • Nikolai Polevoi, Ermak Timofeich (1845) (page 49)
    • Pavel Grigoriev, Jr., Filatka and Miroshka the Rivals (1833) (page 57)
    • Faddei Bulgarin, Ivan Vyzhigin (1829) (page 65)
    • Petr Ershov, The Little Humpbacked Horse (1834) (page 74)
    • Aleksandra Ishimova, The History of Russia Told for Children (1838) (page 77)
    • Nikolai Zriakhov, The Battle of the Russians with the Kabardinians (1842) (page 83)
    • Etiquette Manuals (1849-1911) (page 93)
    • Street Types, Illustrations by M. Pikki and K. Richau (1860) (page 105)
    • Aleksei Lvov, God Save the Tsar (1833)* (page 107)
    • Evgeny Grebenka, Dark Eyes (1843)* (page 108)
    • N. Sokolov, The Great Moscow Fire (1850)* (page 109)
    • Aleksandr Ammosov and O. Kh. Agrenova-Slavianskaia, Elegy (Khas-Bulat) (1858)* (page 111)
  • Part III: Great Reforms and the Expansion of Civic Space, 1861-1881
    • Balagan Advertisements, Malafeev Theater (1883) (page 119)
    • Vsevolod Krestovsky, The Slums of Petersburg (1864) (page 121)
    • How the Russian Gave It Hot to a German (1869) (page 129)
    • Fedor Ivanich Kuz'ma, Oh Those Yaroslavites, What a Fine Folk! (1868) (page 135)
    • The Slums of the Female Heart (1870) (page 141)
    • Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, Correspondence from the Russo-Turkish War (1876-77) (page 149)
    • M. Evstigneev, War Stories from the Present-Day War with the Turks (1879) (page 154)
    • L. A. Tikhomirov, Where Is It Better? (1873) (page 156)
    • A Flask of Hooch (1882) (page 166)
    • Gypsy Romances* (page 173)
  • 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)* (page 183)
    • M. L. Lentovsky, Sarah Bernhardt (1891) (page 186)
    • V. P. Valentinov, The Queen of Diamonds (1908-1910) (page 198)
    • Anecdotes (1840-1917) (page 203)
    • Moscow Court Reporting, The Moscow Sheet (Early 1880s) (page 212)
    • Aleksei Pazukhin, The Terrible Wedding Night (1883) (page 217)
    • The Terrible Bandit Churkin (1885) (page 221)
    • N. A. Leikin, Where the Oranges Ripen (1892) (page 230)
    • I. I. Miasnitsky, Messrs. Businessmen (1890s) (page 239)
    • The Diary of Maria Bashkirtseva (1889) (page 244)
    • V. M. Doroshevich, Ivanov Pavel (1901) (page 250)
    • Maxim Gorky, Song of The Stormy Petrel (1901) (page 259)
    • M. D. Klefortov, Light-Fingered Sonya (1903) (page 261)
    • Revolutionary Songs (Late 19th Century)* (page 269)
  • Part V: The Eruption of Commercial Culture in the Interrevolutionary Years, 1906-1917
    • Vaudeville Skits (1905-1910)* (page 278)
    • Why Was I Born into This World? Tobolsk Prison Song (1908)* (page 285)
    • K[onstantin] R[omanov], The Poor Fellow Died (circa 1910)* (page 286)
    • Marusia Poisoned Herself (1915)* (page 290)
    • Olga Gridina, Russian Sob Sister (1910) (page 292)
    • Al. Aleksandrovsky, How the Lasses Burned a Lad in the Stove (1911) (page 295)
    • V. I. Kryzhanovskaia, The Wrath of God (1909) (page 299)
    • Lidiia Charskaia, The Little Siberian Girl (Sibirochka) (1910) (page 306)
    • M. N. Volkonsky, The African Princess (Vampuka) (1907) (page 316)
    • N. N. Breshko-Breshkovsky, Gladiators of Our Times (1909) (page 323)
    • Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanin (1908) (page 329)
    • Anastasia Verbitskaia, The Keys to Happiness (1913) (page 333)
    • Count Amori, The Vanquished (1912) (page 337)
    • Petr Chardynin, Do You Remember? (1915)* (page 339)
    • E. A. Nagrodskaia, The Wrath of Dionysus (1910) (page 341)
    • Count Amori, The Countess-Actress (1916) (page 349)
    • Nat Pinkerton, King of Detectives, The Bloody Talisman (1915) (page 362)
    • The Headlands of Manchuria (1906-1908)* (page 377)
    • The Heroic Feat of the Don Cossack Kuzma Firsovich Kriuchkov (1914) (page 379)
    • Sergei Sokolsky, Jackals (1916) (page 383)
    • V. V. Ramazanov, Rasputin's Nighttime Orgies (1917) (page 385)
  • GLOSSARY (page 391)
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 393)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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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