The Russian Experience

Vigée Le Brun had reached her fortieth birthday when she arrived in Saint Petersburg in the summer of 1795, but she had lost none of her enthusiasm, energy, and eagerness to test herself in the face of challenging new adventures and experiences. The city itself was a creation by the sheer willpower...

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Published inElisabeth Vigée Le Brun p. 127
Main Author May, Gita
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Yale University Press 06.10.2005
Subjects
Applied arts
Architecture
Art exhibitions
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Arts participation
Behavioral sciences
Buildings
Business
Cities
Clothing industry
Cognitive psychology
Consumer goods industries
Dresses
Dwellings
Emotion
Emotional states
Empresses
Fear
Government
Government officials
Heads of state
Hermitages
Human geography
Human societies
Industrial sectors
Industry
Manufacturing industries
Metropolitan areas
Monarchs
Palaces
Political geography
Political science
Portraits
Practical theology
Princesses
Psychology
Religion
Religious places
Residential buildings
Royalty
Social classes
Social sciences
Social stratification
Social structures
Sociology
Theology
Tsars
Upper class
Womens apparel
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Summary:Vigée Le Brun had reached her fortieth birthday when she arrived in Saint Petersburg in the summer of 1795, but she had lost none of her enthusiasm, energy, and eagerness to test herself in the face of challenging new adventures and experiences. The city itself was a creation by the sheer willpower of Peter the Great at the dawn of the eighteenth century in order to provide for Russia an outlet to the sea and a port of trade through the Baltic. More importantly, he wanted it to be not only the new Russian capital and a modern metropolis, but
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