Mr Richard Stites: 1 book
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia
The Pleasure and the Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial...
