salon painting

[Svetlana Grenier]

http://shkolazhizni.ru/img/content/i33/33867_or.jpg

Zinaida Volkonskaia's salon (Mickiewicz reciting poetry, Pushkin among 
listeners) by G. Miasoedov

Best,
Svetlana Grenier

Sara Pankenier Weld wrote:

>Dear colleagues,
>I will be teaching Pavlova's <Dvoinaia zhizn'> as part of a
>nineteenth-century literature survey course and thought I would try to
>recreate a literary salon environment for our discussion of the novel. To
>that end, I am trying to come up with a Russian painting of a
>nineteenth-century salon or such setting that I could project in the
>background. Any ideas?
>
>The best I have come up with so far is Bashkirtseva's "L'atelier Julian,"
>since it is of the right era and represents women's craft, but I wonder if I
>can do better. I welcome your suggestions.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Sara Pankenier
>
>Visiting Lecturer
>Department of Russian
>421 Founders Hall
>Wellesley College
>Wellesley, MA 02481
>
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Svetlana S. Grenier

Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Box 571050
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1050
202-687-6108
greniers at georgetown.edu

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