Sleeping Arrangements
Donna Orwin
donna.orwin at UTORONTO.CA
Thu Jan 11 13:40:56 UTC 2007
Dear Mr. Shatsev,
Thank you for your information. Lotman is a good idea, and I will take
a look at it. Of course I remember you, and thank you for your
invitation. Where in Hart House will you be lecturing?
All the best, 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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From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Shatsev
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:39 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Sleeping Arrangements
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>
>Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
><SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
>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
>
>----------------------------
>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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