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gentle savages
… for example, fit perfectly with common Russian views of theChuvash as amiable but dull-witted “children of nature.” In early-nineteenth-century accounts, the Chuvash routinely appear as meek, humble, quiet, somewhat thickheaded, and incorrigibly superstitious “half-savages” who behave themselves more like children than grown adults. This general Chuvashian image, while hardly flattering, was not entirely negative. … This rendering of Chuvash as gentle savages comes out wonderfully in an article by a provincial official (a Russianized Chuvash himself) who proudly shows off a statue of the great Russian poet G.R. Derzhavin to three benighted Chuvash villagers. The official describes the three Chuvash bumpkins as understandably impressed, even awestruck, by the statue, much like the barbarians of old who, despite their own “savagery (dikost),” were still able to recognize the grandeur of Greek civilization.
Willard Sunderland. An Empire of Peasants... // Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire (на 188 стр. отрывок)
… for example, fit perfectly with common Russian views of the
Willard Sunderland. An Empire of Peasants... // Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire (на 188 стр. отрывок)
