Russian orientalism
Subtitle: Asia in the Russian mind from Peter the Great to the emigration
By: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300110630
Subjects: Orientalism -- Russia -- History; Public opinion -- Russia -- History; Asia -- Study and teaching -- Russia; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917; Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Russian; Russia -- Relations -- Asia; Asia -- Relations -- Russia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What is Russian orientalism?; title: The forest and the steppe; title: The Petrine dawn; title: Catherinian chinoiserie; title: The oriental muse; title: The Kazan school; title: Missionary orientology; title: The rise of the St. Petersburg school; title: The oriental faculty; title: The exotic self; title: Conclusion: Asia in the Russian mind.