Tatiana's garden : noble sensibilities and estate park design in the romantic era

Author

Roosevelt, Priscilla R.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Slavic review. 1990, Num. 3, Vol. 49, p. 335-349

ISSN

0037-6779

Abstract (en)

The fashion in Russia, exemplified by Tatiana's garden in Evgenii Onegin, for the natural yet foreign English garden, is seen as emblematic of the Russian noble's desire for an immediate and natural relationship with his surroundings on the one hand, and his Europeanized disdain for rural Russian reality on the other. Surveys the evolution of the English garden in Russia from the great parks of the late 18th c. to the small landscaped areas around modest provincial houses of the 19th c. Sees the artificially natural garden of the country house as reinforcing the wealthy landowner's psychological distance from the rural Russia he professed to admire.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- Gardens
• English gardens
• Soviet Union
• 1700-1900
• Puškin, Aleksandr Sergeevič, 1799-1837
• Evgenij Onegin

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- Jardins
• Jardin anglais
• Union soviétique
• 1700-1900
• Puškin, Aleksandr Sergeevič, 1799-1837
• Evgenij Onegin

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920401-00423274

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