Title: An ordinary marriage : the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia /
Authors: Antonova, Katherine Pickering, 1975-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Chikhachev family.; Families Russia (Federation) Vladimirskai͡a gubernīi͡a History; Gentry Russia (Federation) Vladimirskai͡a gubernīi͡a History; Gentry Russia (Federation) Vladimirskai͡a gubernīi͡a Social life and customs; Marriage Russia (Federation) Vladimirskai͡a gubernīi͡a History; Sex role Russia History; Women in real estate Russia (Federation) Vladimirskai͡a gubernīi͡a History; Real estate management Russia (Federation) Vladimirskai͡a gubernīi͡a History
Abstract: 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.