Byt i nravy pushkinskoi epokhi - Marchenko Nonna

The essence of this book is in the details. When did the carriage door show two coats of arms? Why was it thought that a decent woman in a masquerade does not belong? In what order did the guests sit down at the table during the dinner party? Why even in wealthy houses of guests, happened, regaled their own candy? What did the parade and the ball have in common? How among the ladies of the highest light there was a fashion for kokoshniks and sundresses? All these are little things of everyday life, but without them a lot is not clear in the works of Russian classics. Nonna Marchenko's book is a kind of encyclopedia of noble culture of the first half of the 19th century. Based on the documents of the era, she talks about parades and carnival processions, fashions, gardens and estates, family albums, feasts, entertainment, card games, salons, bookstores, theatrical life and many, many other things... Nonna Marchenko (1939-2007) - a specialist in domestic culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, worked for a long time as a senior researcher at the State Museum a. S. Pushkin (Moscow)