Conversations about Russian culture

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is a world -famous scientist, philologist and culturologist, whose works are translated into all major European languages. His heritage is extremely extensive and has about eight hundred scientific and popular science articles and books. He was destined to become the head of a whole scientific school, which developed new methods of analyzing a literary text, alien to the official Soviet literary criticism. Like many outstanding scientists, Yu.M. It was difficult for Lotman to remain within the framework of one scientific discipline: his research was devoted not only to the literature of the XVIII and XIX centuries, but also by the history of Russian social thought, the theory of art, and cultural studies. In the late 1980s, he gave a lecture on television on the life and traditions of the Russian nobility, on the basis of the television cycle, the book “Conversations of Russian Culture” was created. The scientist’s interest in this topic was organically related to the study of the works of Russian literature of the first third of the XIX century. Thanks to the Lotman, the Pushkin era is revealed before us not only through classical texts, but also through the realities of everyday life: a table of ranks, home education, a high -society ball, a duel, a card game, etc.
The variety of documentary sources attracted, the breadth of generalizations and the availability of presentation - these qualities invariably characterize the research of Yu.M. Lotman, who still remain popular not only among specialists, but also in a wide reader audience