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- catalog abstract ""Providing a unique glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Days of a Russian Noblewoman combines a rare memoir and a diary, now translated into English for the first time. By the standards of her day, Anna Labzina was relatively well educated, and she traveled widely through the Russian empire. Yet, unlike most writers of her time, she writes primarily as a dutiful, if inwardly rebellious, daughter and wife, reflecting on the onerous roles assigned to women in a male-centered society. Labzina was married young to Alexander Karamyshev, who, while well regarded in political and scholarly circles of his day, proved to be brutish and abusive at home. A 'Russian Voltairian, ' he professed atheism and free love. His unbridled behavior caused Labzina much grief, which she vividly recalls in her memoir. Because she moved among aristocratic circles, her reminiscences bring readers face to face with celebrated figures of politics and literature, including the Empress Catherine the Great and the 'Radiant Prince' Grigorii Potemkin. As a pious and charitable woman, Labzina also speaks for others who rarely had a voice in literature: serfs, prisoners, and political exiles. Labzina wrote both her memoir and her diary during her second marriage, to Alexander Labzin, a leader in Russian Freemasonry and in the movement for religious revival. During this time, she became actively involved in the spiritual life of his lodge, the Dying Sphinx. Her account of her spiritual development and her social sphere offer unparalleled insights into male and female sensibilities of the time."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog alternative "Russian noblewoman".
- catalog alternative "Vospominanii︠a︡. English".
- catalog contributor b12154286.
- catalog contributor b12154287.
- catalog contributor b12154288.
- catalog contributor b12154289.
- catalog coverage "Russia Social life and customs 1533-1917.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Providing a unique glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Days of a Russian Noblewoman combines a rare memoir and a diary, now translated into English for the first time. By the standards of her day, Anna Labzina was relatively well educated, and she traveled widely through the Russian empire. Yet, unlike most writers of her time, she writes primarily as a dutiful, if inwardly rebellious, daughter and wife, reflecting on the onerous roles assigned to women in a male-centered society. Labzina was married young to Alexander Karamyshev, who, while well regarded in political and scholarly circles of his day, proved to be brutish and abusive at home. A 'Russian Voltairian, ' he professed atheism and free love. His unbridled behavior caused Labzina much grief, which she vividly recalls in her memoir. Because she moved among aristocratic circles, her reminiscences bring readers face to face with celebrated figures of politics and literature, including the Empress Catherine the Great and the 'Radiant Prince' Grigorii Potemkin. As a pious and charitable woman, Labzina also speaks for others who rarely had a voice in literature: serfs, prisoners, and political exiles. Labzina wrote both her memoir and her diary during her second marriage, to Alexander Labzin, a leader in Russian Freemasonry and in the movement for religious revival. During this time, she became actively involved in the spiritual life of his lodge, the Dying Sphinx. Her account of her spiritual development and her social sphere offer unparalleled insights into male and female sensibilities of the time."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-166) and index.".
- catalog description "Memoir -- Diary -- Appendices: Variant beginning to memoir. Freemasons' ceremony.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 170 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "087580277X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng rus".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Russia Social life and customs 1533-1917.".
- catalog spatial "Russia".
- catalog subject "947/.07/092 21".
- catalog subject "DK127.5.L3 A3 2001".
- catalog subject "Karamyshev, Aleksandr Matveevich, 1744-1791.".
- catalog subject "Labzin, Aleksandr, 1766-1825.".
- catalog subject "Labzina, Anna Evdokimovna, 1758-1828.".
- catalog subject "Nobility Russia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women Russia Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Memoir -- Diary -- Appendices: Variant beginning to memoir. Freemasons' ceremony.".
- catalog title "Days of a Russian noblewoman : the memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821 / translated and edited by Gary Marker and Rachel May.".
- catalog title "Russian noblewoman".
- catalog title "Vospominanii︠a︡. English".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".