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100 1 $aFiges, Orlando.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88217827
245 10 $aNatasha's dance :$ba cultural history of Russia /$cOrlando Figes.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2002.
300 $axxxiii, 728 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 661-689) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEuropean Russia --$g2.$tChildren of 1812 --$g3.$tMoscow! Moscow! --$g4.$tThe Peasant Marriage --$g5.$tIn Search of the Russian Soul --$g6.$tDescendants of Genghiz Khan --$g7.$tRussia Through the Soviet Lens --$g8.$tRussia Abroad.
520 1 $a"Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, this internationally renowned historian does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.".
520 8 $a"Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg - a "window on the West" - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its, character, spiritual essence, history, and destiny. What did it mean to be Russian - an illiterate serf or an imperial courtier? And where was the true Russia - in Europe or in Asia?
520 8 $aFiges skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky and Chekhov, Stravinsky and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from eating, drinking, and bathing habits to beliefs about death and the spirit world.
520 8 $aHis fascinating characters range high and low; the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search the wilderness for the Kingdom of God; the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar, won the heart of her owner, and shocked society by becoming his wife; the composer Stravinsky, who returned to Russia after fifty years in the West and discovered that the homeland the had left had never left his heart."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aRussia$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004158
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol021/2002071881.html
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