Conversations about Russian Culture: Everyday Life and Traditions of the Russian

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993) - a world-famous scholar, outstanding literary critic, cultural scientist, one of the founders of domestic semiotics, professor at Tartu University. "Conversations about Russian Culture" - this is a unique book, a study dedicated to the most captivating period of Russian history - the 18th to the early 19th centuries. It was during this time, according to Lotman, that the "family album of our contemporary culture" and its "home archive" emerged.