Friends: Gilbert Romme and the Stroganovs

Frede, Victoria Sophia

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Title

Friends: Gilbert Romme and the Stroganovs

Author(s)

Frede, Victoria Sophia

Issue Date

2015-11

Keyword(s)

• Education
• Enlightenment
• sentimentalism
• friendship
• clientage
• childhood education
• foreign tutors
• Gilbert Romme
• Count A. S. Stroganov
• Count P. A. Stroganov
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstract

This article analyzes the intersection of sentimental codes of friendship and pedagogical theory in Russia and France in the second half of the eighteenth century, concentrating on a single group, Aleksandr Stroganov, Pavel Stroganov, and Gilbert Romme. Reading their correspondence in tandem with treatises on friendship and education, the article investigates how such key concepts as equality and virtue were understood at their time. It further explores how they negotiated differences in status and age in constructing what they called a friendship.

Series/Report Name or Number

ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 3

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2015 Victoria Sophia Frede
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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