From the latter part of the eighteenth century until the Revolution, bookshops, market traders, and colporteurs all sold books and pamphlets on fortune-telling.
An edition of Reading Russian Fortunes
(1998)
Reading Russian fortunes
print culture, gender, and divination in Russia from 1765
by Faith Wigzell
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"Reading Russian fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society."--Jacket.
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Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
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Reading Russian fortunes: print culture, gender, and divination in Russia from 1765
1998, Cambridge University Press
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