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Графский титул в контексте Петровской карнавальной культуры

Успенский, Борис Андреевич

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Title
Графский титул в контексте Петровской карнавальной культуры
Author(s)
Успенский, Борис Андреевич
Issue Date
2014-11
Keyword(s)
  • Peter I
  • Anna Ioannovna
  • Titles of honor and nobility
  • Court jesters
  • N. M. Zotov
  • Juan Da Costa
  • Carnival
  • Lacosta
Abstract
“The Title of Count in the Context of Petrine Carnival Culture.” The europeanization of Russia under Peter I had a conspicuously carnival form. Characteristically, the reforms of Peter I, which were intended to turn Russia into a European country, in many cases began with carnival sport. Carnavalization, re-naming—all this manifested a general cultural program, which reveals the artificial character of the modernization of Russia. Russian official life turned out to be extremely carnivalesque. Carnival became an element of Russian court life; participation in carnivals was obligatory. Together with new clothing, new language and new habits, new aristoricratic titles were adopted, such as count or baron. In the context of carnival ceremonies such titles had an ambiguous character. The author attempts to demonstrate that the title of count could be understood as buffonesque in the Petrine epoch.
Series/Report Name or Number
ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 2
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text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
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Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2014 Борис Андреевич Успенский
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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ВИВЛIОθИКА V2 2014 PRIMARY
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