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Mother of the church : Sofia Svechina, the salon, and the politics of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Russia and France /

"Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782-1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian emigre, Svechina moved to France with her husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and the salon she opened acquired a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bakhmetyeva, Tatyana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I ST. PETERSBURG
  • PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER 1 The World in Flux: The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Russian Nobility
  • CHAPTER 2 In the Salons of St. Petersburg
  • CHAPTER 3 At a Religious Crossroads
  • CHAPTER 4 Becoming Catholic, Becoming Russian
  • PART II: PARIS
  • PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER 5 Making Paris Home: The Micro-Politics of Friendship
  • CHAPTER 6 "Neutral Grounds in Paris": The Early Years of Svechina's Salon
  • CHAPTER 7 Svechina and French Religious Politics, 1830-1848
  • CHAPTER 8 The Kingdom of Saint-Dominique
  • CHAPTER 9 Opportunities Lost
  • CHAPTER 10 The New Crisis and the End
  • Conclusion Writing the Modern Saint
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index