Conversations about Russian culture. Everyday life and traditions of the Russian nobility (XVIII-beginning of the XIX century)

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is a world-famous scientist, a philologist and cultural scientist, whose works are translated into all major European languages. His creative heritage is extremely extensive and has about eight hundred scientific and popular science articles and books. Like many outstanding scientists, Yu.M.lotman was difficult to remain within the framework of one scientific discipline: its research was devoted not only to the literature of the XVIII and XIX centuries, but also the history of Russian public thought, the theory of art, cultural studies. In the late 1980s, he read on television a lecture on the life and traditions of the Russian nobility: these television shows collected millions of viewers from the screens. Based on the television cycle of lectures to scientists and created the book "conversations about Russian culture. It immerses the reader in the era of the 18th - early XIX century, which is represented through the realities of everyday life: a table of ranks, home education, a living ball, a duel, a card game, etc. Thanks to the diversity of attracted documentary sources, the breadth of generalizations and the availability of presentation is one of the most important research. On the history of the Russian noble culture still remains popular not only among specialists, but also from a wide reader audience