Besedy o russkoy kul'ture: Byt i tradicii russkogo dvoryanstva (XVIII — nachalo XIX veka) Kniga 2

«Besedy o russkoy kul'ture» — unikal'nyy trud, posvyashchennyy zhizni russkogo dvoryanstva XVIII — nachala XIX veka. Napisannaya uvlekatel'nym i dostupnym dazhe nepodgotovlennomu chitatelyu yazykom, kniga otkryvaet pered nami zavorazhivayushchiy mir chinov, balov, kartochnyh igr, dueley, politicheskih intrig i, nakonec, vzaimootnosheniy lyudey ushedshih epoh — mir osobogo kul'turnogo koda, bez kotorogo nevozmozhno ponyat' klassicheskuyu otechestvennuyu literaturu, mnogie vazhnye vekhi istorii Rossii, nashe proshloe i, sledovatel'no, nashe budushchee. Rabota byla podgotovlena Lotmanom na osnove avtorskih televizionnyh lekciy, chitavshihsya im v konce 1980-h godov.