Sleeping Arrangements

[Vladimir Shatsev]

Dear Ms. Orwin,
1.	I think that the various works of  fiction seem to differ on this point 
because all the rules in Russia are subject to a lot of exceptions. Your 
students can find some information about matrimonial relations and love 
affairs in various editions of Yury Lotman’s  BIT RUSSKOGO 
DVORIANSTVA.BESEDI O RUSSKOI KULTURE as well as in his Commentaries to 
Evgeniy Onegin.
2.	Probably you remember me .I had written you a couple of letters last 
Autumn with invitation to my lecture about War and Peace at Chapters and 
also about samizdat at the Institute of Comparative Studies where I 
substituted for Associate Professor Ann Komaromi .
Now I would like to invite you to  my lectures at Hart House, U  of T, where 
I regularly teach members of Russian Students’ Association, poetry group, 
every Sunday at 7 p.m. The next lecture will take place on Sunday, January 
14th at Hart House. It will be about Mozart and Saliery: Fazil Iskander 
version of events. If you, your students or colleagues will be interested in 
this initiative of RSA and my lectures, please let me know. I will send you 
the schedule of lectures .

Regards,

Vladimir Shatsev

Language and Drama Teacher

Royal Toronto Oblomov Society

Russian House Community Centre www.russianhouse.ca

Phone.: 416-236-5563
Cell : 416-333-1840

Email: vladimir.shatsev at russianhouse.ca




>From: Donna Orwin <donna.orwin at UTORONTO.CA>
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>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: [SEELANGS] Sleeping Arrangements
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:14:40 -0500
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>One of my students has asked me about the sleeping arrangements for
>married couples among high society Russians in the nineteenth century.
>Do they share the same bedroom and bed, or do they tend to have their
>own rooms, with the husband visiting the wife for conjugal relations?
>Do the arrangements change as the century goes on, and do different
>classes have different rules?  Different works of fiction seem to differ
>on this point.  Where in the house or apartment do lovers meet and sin
>when the husband is not home?  Has anyone written about this subject?
>
>Sincerely, and thanks in advance for the information,
>
>Donna Orwin
>
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>Prof. Donna Tussing Orwin
>President, Tolstoy Society
>Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>University of Toronto
>Alumni Hall 415
>121 St. Joseph St.
>Toronto. ON M5S 1J4
>Tel. 416-926-1300. ext. 3316
>
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