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Presenting a broad panorama of society and culture in the German lands and Russia from the Enlightenment to the breakthrough of modernity, this microhistory of one extraordinary family explores how the lives of individual people are entangled with the great forces of their age.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Uncertain Beginnings, 1768-1790
- 1: The Barber-Surgeon from Silesia
- 2: An Irresistible Inclination to the Stage
- 3: The Printer's Daughter
- Part II: Actor on the German Stage, 1790-1809
- 4: Theater, Revolution, and Freemasonry
- 5: The Landgrave's Theater
- 6: Excellent Acting and Upright Character
- 7: The Land of Extremes
- 8: Curtain Call
- Part III: Merchant of Imperial Russia, 1809-1820
- 9: A So-Called Cosmetics Store
- 10: The Real Russia
- 11: The Lord's Will
- 12: A Man of Consequence
- Part IV: Pastor on the Black Sea Steppe, 1820-1835
- 13: New Russia
- 14: The Sage of Kharkov
- Part V: Legacies
- 15: Memory
- 16: Honored Citizens
- Conclusion
About the author
Alexander M. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries:Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013).
Summary
Presenting a broad panorama of society and culture in the German lands and Russia from the Enlightenment to the breakthrough of modernity, this microhistory of one extraordinary family explores how the lives of individual people are entangled with the great forces of their age.
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The magic of the book lies within its densely researched chapters, which I strongly recommend. Readers, like Rosenstrauch's theater audiences, will be much enlightened and even entertained.
