TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The death of a baron: the hermeneutics of suicide in late-eighteenth century European culture, as revealed by Russian-Swedish correspondence
JO  - Avtobiografija
A1  - Vinitsky, Ilya
SP  - 137
EP  - 173
VL  - 
IS  - 10
N2  - In October 1800, a young, rich, popular and successful Swedish aristocrat and military hero in the Russian service committed suicide, seemingly for no reason. His name was Major Magnus-Wilhelm Sprengtporten (1772-1800), and he was the son of the famous Swedish traitor, Finnish patriot and Russian agent Goran Magnus Sprengtporten (1740-1819; the future military governor of Finland). The real cause of his death in Moscow triggered an intense epistolary debate that has remained unnoticed by Russian and Western scholars of suicide. The participants of this debate included Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, and French writers, politicians, military men, conspirators, adventu- rists, courtiers, and historians, ranging from the Russian writer Karamzin to Napoleon, then First Consul of France, and Russian Emperor Paul I. The major question posed by this project is not why the son of the infamous Swedish politician decided to commit suicide, but rather how this suicide reveals a number of dramatic ideological, political, emotional, and literary conflicts and shifts in Russia, Sweden, and Europe as a whole on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars.     ===    Печальное событие, о котором пойдет речь в этой статье, случилось между самоубий- ствами автора Российского Вертера Михаила Сушкова (1792) и автора Путешествия из Петербурга в Москву Алек- сандра Радищева (1802), имев- шими значительный обще- ственный резонанс и поро- дившими множество разного рода истолкований - от свет- ских сплетен до историко- культурных интерпретаций. В отличие от этих знаменитых самоубийств заинтересовав- ший нас случай редко привле- кал к себе внимание истори- ков: в научной литературе о нем можно найти лишь 3-4 беглых упоминания. Между тем русская "история само- убийств" без него остается не- полной.<p />  <p>Language: ru</p>
LA  - ru
SN  - 2281-6992
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -