Svetlana Vladimirovna Filatova,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Penza State Pedagogical University, Penza, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Reservoir in the Cultural and Everyday Space of the Provincial Nobility in the Late 18th – Early 20th Centuries (Based on the Materials of the Penza Region)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-3-12
This article discusses issues related to the importance of water resources in the subculture of the domestic provincial nobility. Based on memoir literature, as well as existing research on the topic, it can be stated that the reservoir played a significant role in the daily life of the nobility rural estate and, accordingly, its inhabitants. The place for the construction of the master’s house was not necessarily chosen taking into account the availability of natural water sources. In places that lacked access to adequate water supply, relevant engineering works on the creation of artificial reservoirs were carried out. Ponds in the estates served both the household and utilitarian purposes, as well as aesthetic, representative, recreational. The nobility living in the cities, also used the benefits provided by water sources everywhere. The paper is concerned with rivers as ways to communicate, entertainment, cultural and leisure values of water sources, the emergence of water sports. All this activity contributed to the formation of a national mental characteristic, which consists in the perception of water as good, a source of life and a semi-pagan-half-Christian cult.
Publishing: 28/06/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 14/02/2022
How to cite: Filatova S.V. A Reservoir in the Cultural and Everyday Space of the Provincial Nobility in the Late 18th – Early 20th Centuries (Based on the Materials of the Penza Region) // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 3 (23), pp. 164–176. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-3-12.pdf]
Links: Issue 3 2022
Keywords: reservoir; nobility; noble estate; cultural and community space; leisure; hunting; fishing; river cruise