Руската дворянска култура в края на златния век. Пари и аристократичeн етос
Russian Nobility Culture at the End of the Golden Age. Money and Aristocratic Ethos

Summary/Abstract: The article looks into two stages in the economic history of Russian nobility (18th - 19th centuries) and the literary history of money. During the Enlightenment and the sentimental romantic period with its ideas of social and personal harmony, money became less important than aristocratic ethos and the symbolic wealth of origin, honour and dignity. In the article these ideas are presented as a social realisation of a fairy tale. The study focuses on A. N. Ostrovski’s dramas, which reveal the expansion of capitalism in 19th century, the impoverishment of nobility and the expansion of pragmatism and entrepreneurship.

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