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Ethnographic Description and Ethnic Ideas about Russia of the 1730’s by Lord George Forbes

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В статье анализируется трактат посла Великобритании лорда Дж. Форбса «Очерк о России. 1733–1734 гг.», написанный во время его пребывания при дворе императрицы Анны Иоанновны (оригинал хранится в замке семейства Форбсов в Ирландии). Впервые текст трактата был опубликован американским историком Майклом Биттером в 2004 г. в журнале «The Slavonic and East European Review». В своем очерке Форбс представил подробное описание местоположения, природных ресурсов, климата, управления, экономики, обычаев России, что позволяет причислить его произведение к этнографическим работам. В то же время восприятие увиденного в стране пребывания дало возможность составить представление о сложившихся у лорда Форбса этнических стереотипах о России и ее народе. Автор приходит к выводу, что произведение британского посла носит объективный характер и расширяет представления наших современников об эпохе правления Анны Иоанновны. The article analyzes the treatise of the British Ambassador Lord J. Forbes “Essay on Russia. 1733–1734”, written during his stay at the court of Empress Anna Ioannovna (the original is kept in the castle of the Forbes family in Ireland). The text of the treatise was first published by the American historian Michael Bitter in 2004 in The Slavonic and East European Review. In his essay, Forbes presented a detailed description of the location, natural resources, climate, governance, economy, and customs of Russia, which makes it possible to classify his work as an ethnographic work. At the same time, the perception of what he saw in the host country made it possible to get an idea of ​​the ethnic stereotypes that Lord Forbes had formed about Russia and its people. The author comes to the conclusion that the work of the British ambassador is of an objective nature and expands the ideas of our contemporaries about the era of the reign of Anna Ioannovna.
Title: Ethnographic Description and Ethnic Ideas about Russia of the 1730’s by Lord George Forbes
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В статье анализируется трактат посла Великобритании лорда Дж.
Форбса «Очерк о России.
1733–1734 гг.
», написанный во время его пребывания при дворе императрицы Анны Иоанновны (оригинал хранится в замке семейства Форбсов в Ирландии).
Впервые текст трактата был опубликован американским историком Майклом Биттером в 2004 г.
в журнале «The Slavonic and East European Review».
В своем очерке Форбс представил подробное описание местоположения, природных ресурсов, климата, управления, экономики, обычаев России, что позволяет причислить его произведение к этнографическим работам.
В то же время восприятие увиденного в стране пребывания дало возможность составить представление о сложившихся у лорда Форбса этнических стереотипах о России и ее народе.
Автор приходит к выводу, что произведение британского посла носит объективный характер и расширяет представления наших современников об эпохе правления Анны Иоанновны.
The article analyzes the treatise of the British Ambassador Lord J.
Forbes “Essay on Russia.
1733–1734”, written during his stay at the court of Empress Anna Ioannovna (the original is kept in the castle of the Forbes family in Ireland).
The text of the treatise was first published by the American historian Michael Bitter in 2004 in The Slavonic and East European Review.
In his essay, Forbes presented a detailed description of the location, natural resources, climate, governance, economy, and customs of Russia, which makes it possible to classify his work as an ethnographic work.
At the same time, the perception of what he saw in the host country made it possible to get an idea of ​​the ethnic stereotypes that Lord Forbes had formed about Russia and its people.
The author comes to the conclusion that the work of the British ambassador is of an objective nature and expands the ideas of our contemporaries about the era of the reign of Anna Ioannovna.

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