The All-Jesting Assembly: The Laughing Culture of Tsarist Russia
15 hrs. 2 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lev Berdnikov
Author
Lev Berdnikov
Narrator
Igor Pronin
Narrator
Igor Pronin
Description
A well-known philologist and cultural scholar on the culture of laughter in imperial Russia
In this audiobook, historian and cultural scholar Lev Berdnikov talks about the phenomenon of Russian jestering. The gallery of characters is opened by “The Bloody Jester,” Ivan the Terrible, the first to guess how to use laughter as a weapon to fight those who were inconvenient and dissenters. Special attention is given to the eighteenth century: the author introduces the listener to the history of the creation of Peter the Great’s legendary All-Joking Cathedral and a whole constellation of crowned clowns—from the jester Balakirev and Kvasknik-the-Dummy to Jan Lacosta and the greedy Pedrillo, the favorite of Empress Anna Ioannovna.
The audiobook also features portraits of Russian wits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in this unexpected angle, charismatic historical figures (Grigory Potemkin, Alexey Yermolov) appear as well as our homegrown Münchhausens—masters of telling astonishing stories. Separate chapters are devoted to “jester-literature”—vain and talentless writers who became parody-figures in Russian culture and objects of ridicule among their peers.
In this audiobook, historian and cultural scholar Lev Berdnikov talks about the phenomenon of Russian jestering. The gallery of characters is opened by “The Bloody Jester,” Ivan the Terrible, the first to guess how to use laughter as a weapon to fight those who were inconvenient and dissenters. Special attention is given to the eighteenth century: the author introduces the listener to the history of the creation of Peter the Great’s legendary All-Joking Cathedral and a whole constellation of crowned clowns—from the jester Balakirev and Kvasknik-the-Dummy to Jan Lacosta and the greedy Pedrillo, the favorite of Empress Anna Ioannovna.
The audiobook also features portraits of Russian wits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in this unexpected angle, charismatic historical figures (Grigory Potemkin, Alexey Yermolov) appear as well as our homegrown Münchhausens—masters of telling astonishing stories. Separate chapters are devoted to “jester-literature”—vain and talentless writers who became parody-figures in Russian culture and objects of ridicule among their peers.
41:06
01_Krovavyy skomoroh Ivan Groznyy
34:10
02_Vseshuteyshiy patriarh Nikita Zotov
22:06
03_Lyutyy i predannyy Fedor Romodanovskiy
12:45
04_Kavaler ordena Iudy Yuriy Shahovskoy
14:57
05_Iz shutov — v admiraly Ivan Golovin
17:03
06_Nesostoyashayasya liliputiya
33:41
07_Ivan, chto za slovom ne lez v karman Ivan Balakirev
38:14
08_Korol samoedov Yan Lakosta
17:08
09_Durak korysti radi Pedrillo
28:09
10_Kvasnik-durak Mihail Golitsyn
32:12
11_Nakazanie za lyubov
26:27
12_Posledniy tsarskiy shut Petr Aksakov
32:35
13_Ciyatelnyy arlekin Lev Naryshkin
19:07
14_Pridvornyy prokaznik Dmitriy Kologrivov
23:02
15_Prodelki Alekseya Kopieva
43:29
16_OSTROSLOVY. Ulybka poluboga Grigoriy Potemkin
35:03
17_Polet vo sne i nayavu Sergey Lvov
50:03
18_Shumnyy amerikanets Fedor Tolstoy
25:25
19_Ob odnom avtografe Tolstogo-Amerikantsa
59:03
20_«OstYor do derzosti» Aleksey Ermolov
44:09
21_Svetleyshiy ostroslov Aleksandr Menshikov
59:26
22_Cindrom Myunhgauzena
30:44
23_Zabavnik Kireyka Kiriyak Kondratovich
48:22
24_Parnasskiy buffon Nikolay Struyskiy
1:54:15
25_Na poroge grafomanstva Dmitriy Hvostov
