Life and customs of the Pushkin era. Marchenko N.

The essence of this book is in detail. When was two coats of arms depicted on the carriage door? Why was it believed that there was no decent woman in the masquerade? In what order did the guests sit down at the table during dinner? Why, even in wealthy houses, it happened, treated them with their own candies? What had the parade and ball in common? How did the upper world have a fashion for kokoshniki and sundresses? All these are trifles of life, but without them a lot is incomprehensible in the works of Russian classics. The book of Nonna Marchenko is a kind of encyclopedia of the noble culture of the first half of the XIX century. Based on the documents of the era, she talks about parades and carnival processions, mods, gardens and estates, family albums, feasts, entertainments, card games, salons, book shops, theatrical life and many, much more...

Nonna Marchenko (1939–2007) - a household culture specialist of the XVIII - XIX centuries, for a long time worked as a senior researcher at the State Museum A.S. Pushkin (Moscow).