From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars

NOTE EDITORE

In a manuscript in a Russian archive, an anonymous German eyewitness describes what he saw in Moscow during Napoleon's Russian campaign. Who was this nameless memoirist, and what brought him to Moscow in 1812? The search for answers to those questions uncovers a remarkable story of German and Russian life at the dawn of the modern age. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835), the manuscript's author, was a man always on the move and reinventing himself. He spent half his life in the Holy Roman Empire, and the other half in Russia. He was a barber-surgeon, an actor, and a merchant, as well as a Catholic, a Freemason, and a Lutheran pastor. He saw the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, founded a business that flourished for sixty years, and took part in the Enlightenment, the consumer revolution, the Pietist Awakening, and Russia's colonization of the Black Sea steppe. A restless wanderer and seeker, but also the progenitor of an influential merchant family, he was a characteristic figure both of the Age of Revolution and of the bourgeois era that followed. Presenting a broad panorama of life in the German lands and Russia from the Old Regime to modernity, this microhistory explores how individual people shape, and are shaped by, the historical forces of their time.

SOMMARIO

1 - The Barber-Surgeon from Silesia2 - An Irresistible Inclination to the Stage3 - The Printer's Daughter4 - Theater, Revolution, and Freemasonry5 - The Landgrave's Theater6 - Excellent Acting and Upright Character7 - The Land of Extremes8 - Curtain Call9 - A So-Called Cosmetics Store10 - The Real Russia11 - The Lord's Will12 - A Man of Consequence13 - New Russia14 - The Sage of Kharkov15 - Memory16 - Honored Citizens

AUTORE

Alexander M. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries:Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192844378
• Collana: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
• Dimensioni: 240 x 30.0 x 163 mm Ø 1 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 30 black and white figures/maps
• Pagine Arabe: 416