Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
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This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiquette manuals, thieves' tales, children's literature, popular songs, war stories, women's novels, satires of life in America, and vaudeville skits are just a few of the genres represented.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on TransliterationPt. IThe Heyday of Absolutism, Late Eighteenth Century-1825Anecdotes about Balakirev (Traditional Tales)4Tales of the Ancient Poshekhonians (1798)6The Merry Old Fellow (1790)10The Ancient and Modern Divinatory Oracle (1821)12Guak, or Unbounded Devotion: A Knightly Tale (18th century)15The Tale of Vanka Kain (1815)23The New Sterne (1805)31"Traditional Songs" (Late 18th century)41Pt. IICommerce Asserts Its Mediating Presence, 1825-1860Ermak Timofeich (1845)49Filatka and Miroshka the Rivals (1833)57Ivan Vyzhigin (1829)65The Little Humpbacked Horse (1834)74The History of Russia Told for Children (1838)77The Battle of the Russians with the Kabardinians (1842)83Etiquette Manuals (1849-1911)93Street Types, Illustrations by M. Pikki and K. Richau (1860)105God Save the Tsar (1833)107Dark Eyes (1843)108The Great Moscow Fire (1850)109Elegy (Khas-Bulat) (1858)111Pt. IIIGreat Reforms and the Expansion of Civic Space, 1861-1881Balagan Advertisements, Malafeev Theater (1883)119The Slums of Petersburg (1864)121How the Russian Gave It Hot to a German (1869)129Oh Those Yaroslavites, What a Fine Folk! (1868)135The Slums of the Female Heart (1870)141Correspondence from the Russo-Turkish War (1876-77)149War Stories from the Present-Day War with the Turks (1879)154Where Is It Better? (1873)156A Flask of Hooch (1882)166Gypsy Romances173Pt. IVPolitical Stagnation vs. Rapid Industrialization, 1882-1905Scenes from a Third-Class Car (recorded circa 1910)183Sarah Bernhardt (1891)186The Queen of Diamonds (1908-1910)198Anecdotes (1840-1917)203Moscow Court Reporting, The Moscow Sheet (Early 1880s)212The Terrible Wedding Night (1883)217The Terrible Bandit Churkin (1885)221Where the Oranges Ripen (1892)230Messrs. Businessmen (1890s)239The Diary of Maria Bashkirtseva (1889)244Ivanov Pavel (1901)250Song of The Stormy Petrel (1901)259Light-Fingered Sonya (1903)261Revolutionary Songs (Late 19th Century)269Pt. VThe Eruption of Commercial Culture in the Interrevolutionary Years, 1906-1917Vaudeville Skits (1905-1910)278Why Was I Born into This World? Tobolsk Prison Song (1908)285The Poor Fellow Died (circa 1910)286Marusia Poisoned Herself (1915)290Russian Sob Sister (1910)292How the Lasses Burned a Lad in the Stove (1911)295The Wrath of God (1909)299The Little Siberian Girl (Sibirochka) (1910)306The African Princess (Vampuka) (1907)316Gladiators of Our Times (1909)323Sanin (1908)329The Keys to Happiness (1913)333The Vanquished (1912)337Do You Remember? (1915)339The Wrath of Dionysus (1910)341The Countess-Actress (1916)349The Bloody Talisman (1915)362The Headlands of Manchuria (1906-1908)377The Heroic Feat of the Don Cossack Kuzma Firsovich Kriuchkov (1914)379Jackals (1916)383Rasputin's Nighttime Orgies (1917)385Glossary391Selected Bibliography393
