Russia in a fur coat. Russian fur. History, national identity, and cultural status

More than the thousand -year tradition of the use of fur is one of the most important mythology of Russian material culture. The love of fur clothes is equally often mentioned both in foreign and domestic sources that comprehend the specifics of national fashion. Bella Shapiro and Denis Lyapin is one of the first large -scale research, designed to trace how this tradition from ancient Rus" to the present was formed and changed. The authors consider the fur as a multi-level hypertext and tell the history of not styles and silhouettes, but of ideas accompanying the fate of Russian fur-political, socio-economic and scientific. Bella Shapiro is a doctor of cultural studies, a candidate of historical sciences, a professor at the Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art of the Russian State University, a professor at the Department of Philosophy and Socio-Humanitarian Disciplines of the Moscow Art Theater School. Denis Lyapin is a doctor of historical sciences, head of the Department of History and Historical and Cultural Heritage of ESU
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