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The Russian intelligentsia of the 19th century emerged as a result of Russo-Western confrontation. Dilemmas connected with the process of self-identication, of Russia as a country and of the intelligentsia as a new social group, focused in the intelligentsia's attitude towards peasants. The Decembrists wanted to give the way to the values that later were defined by Peter Chaadaev as fundamental for...
The main topic of this article is image of Petersburg in Zinaida Gippius diaries written during World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Petersburg is the principal component of the composition in the diaries. This is not only the place, where notes are made, but also it is the one of the main characters in diaries. The writer inseparably connects it with the idea of history, and emphasized...
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