Main entry:

Schönle, Andreas.

Title & Author:

The ruler in the garden : politics and landscape design in imperial Russia / Andreas Schönle.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Pub Inc., 2007.

Description:

395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Russian transformations : literature, thought, culture ; v. 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-384) and index.
Gardens in the Service of the State -- Gardens and the Career of the Nobility -- The Picturesque Nation : Gaze and Identity -- Estate Mythology and the Nobility's Self-Fashioning -- Conclusion : Blissful Living in a Garden and its Politics -- Contemporary Gardening and the Rejection of the Public Sphere
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Summary:

"This monograph examines the contributions of landscape design to authority and to organization of public life in imperial Russia. Analyzing how tsars and nobles inscribed their political aspirations in the gardens they designed or inhabited, this study maps out a distinct trajectory in the meaning of landscape design. Based partly on archival documents, it explores the reasons for Catherine the Great's keen interest in landscape design. It reconstructs Grigorii Potemkin's attempts to transform the Crimea physically and symbolically into the garden of the empire. And it reveals the centrality of the garden for noblemen such as Andrei Bolotov and Alexander Kurakin, who expressed their political philosophy and their anxieties about unstable social relations through landscaping. The book follows the destiny of western aesthetic categories, notably of the picturesque, as they are first adopted, then transformed, and ultimately rejected. It analyzes the historical role and mythological representations of the country estate, along with Leo Tolstoy's fraught commitment to Yasnaya Polyana and his critique of estate mythology in War and Peace. Finally, this study exposes how the current fashion for gardening in Russia, in particular among New Russians, alludes to imperial landscaping culture in order to justify a retreat from the public sphere"--BOOKJACKET.

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ISBN:

9783039111138 (paperback)
3039111132 (paperback)

Subject:

Landscape design Russia History 18th century.
Landscape design Russia History 19th century.
Gardens Russia History 18th century.
Gardens Russia History 19th century.
Aménagement paysager Russie Histoire 18e siècle.
Aménagement paysager Russie Histoire 19e siècle.
Gardens.
Landscape design.
Gartenkunst
Herrschaft Repräsentation Gartenkunst Russland Geschichte 1755-1870.
Repräsentation Gartenkunst Herrschaft Russland Geschichte 1755-1870.
Gartenkunst Repräsentation Herrschaft Russland Geschichte 1755-1870.
Herrschaft Repräsentation Landschaftsgestaltung Russland Geschichte 1755-1870.
Repräsentation Landschaftsgestaltung Herrschaft Russland Geschichte 1755-1870.
Landschaftsgestaltung Repräsentation Herrschaft Russland Geschichte 1755-1870.
Russia.
Russland
Russland Herrschaft Repräsentation Gartenkunst Geschichte 1755-1870.
Russland Herrschaft Repräsentation Landschaftsgestaltung Geschichte 1755-1870.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Russian transformations ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254243
Call No.: BIB 184159
Status: Available