REEI Lecture

«Представления о Европе и культура путешествий в России начала 19 века» (“Representations of Europe and the culture of travel in early nineteenth-century Russia”—in Russian)

Tatiana Saburova

Thursday February 17, 12:15

Ballantine Hall 004

A Russian European as a phenomenon of Russian culture is one of the perennial questions in Russian history and literature. How did Russian intellectuals of the early nineteenth century perceive Europe and what did the concept “Europe” mean for Russian educated society? Many Russian intellectuals admired French, English or German culture,  and various forms  of “gallomania” and “anglomania” spread throughout early nineteenth-century Russia. The formation and transmission of a specific “mental map” was closely connected with the culture of travel characteristic of the Russian nobility. Where and why did educated Russians travel? In search of education, entertainment or—maybe . . . themselves.

Tatiana Saburova is Professor of History at Omsk State Pedagogical University. She has published extensively on Russian intellectual life in the “long” nineteenth century and is currently a Fulbright scholar in residence at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Sponsored by the Russian and East European Institute

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