An ordinary marriage
Subtitle: the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia
By: Katherine Pickering Antonova
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199796991
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Social life and customs; History; Families; Marriage; Gentry; Sex role; Real estate management; Women in real estate
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A provincial world; title: Society; title: The village; title: Estate management; title: Sociability, charity, and leisure; title: Illness, grief and death; title: Domesticity and motherhood; title: The education of Aleksei; title: Education for all; title: The landscape of ideas.