ESTATES AS PLACES OF POWER

Book Review: The estate and the dacha in the literature of the Soviet era: losses and acquisitions: collective monograph; comp. O.A. Bogdanova; ed. by V.G. Andreeva, O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, 672 p. (Russian Estate in the World Context; issue 8) The object of the review is the eighth issue of the book series “Russian Estate in the World Context”, the collective monograph “Estate and Dacha in the Literature of the Soviet Era: Losses and Gains” (2024). Project manager about the estate, Doctor of Philology O.A. Bogdanova and other prominent scientists, using material from a large number of writers, explore the metamorphosis of the estate text in Soviet times. The author of the review notes the integrity of the concept, the unified style with the brightness of the idiostyles of individual scientists (the reviewer pays special attention to their points of view) and the overall high analytical level of the monograph. The estate text of the Soviet era, for the first time comprehensively studied in this publication, appears as different open facets – it is part of the “garden city” as a development of the locus of the noble estate, and a rhetorical cluster of meanings, and a place for a “journey around the house”, and a regional estate as a place concentration of cultural forces, and, most importantly, the degeneration in the post-estate world of the estate into a dacha, so poeticized by B.L. Pasternak. The reviewer draws attention to the fact that the collective monograph provides materials for compiling an anthology of excerpts from world estate texts.