CREATING AND PRESERVING A MYTH: CHANGING ATTITUDES ABOUT COUNTRY ESTATES IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA

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This article examines how small groups of artistic elites and amateurs attempted to re-contextualise the cultural importance of the Russian country estate in the early twentieth century, a period of formative nation-building, modernisation and industrialisation. The ‘myth’ of the estate was used as a tool to spur preservationist rhetoric in a society without an effective instrument to preserve its built heritage. The principal avenue used by preservationists to advance their agenda was the artistic journal.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2012.675704