书名：Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史
作者：Orlando Figes
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780140297966
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3.3 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：768
★保持开放性的思想和非功利的眼睛，看看世界的丰富性与复杂性。
★《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》、《每日电讯报》等媒体年度瞩目好书，入围“萨缪尔·约翰逊奖”、“达夫•库珀奖”决选名单。

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia《娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史》通过托尔斯泰的名著《战争与和平》，探索俄罗斯文化深刻复杂的多重面向，展现上层阶级的欧洲文化与农民的俄罗斯文化之间的分歧和复杂互动，以及“文明”和“本土”两个俄罗斯之间的对抗如何对19世纪以降的民族意识和文学艺术起到了至关重要的影响。

本书还从俄罗斯芭蕾、绘画、诗歌、戏剧、音乐，到托尔斯泰、普希金、陀思妥耶夫斯基等文豪绚烂的作品中，描绘出浓厚的俄罗斯情感，展现“俄罗斯灵魂”的建构，以及在西化的冲击下，俄国人“文化认同”和“身份认同”的创伤。

媒体评论：
费吉斯对这一主题的写作与众不同。他取材广泛，语言生动、紧凑，充满戏剧性的细节，对私人生活的书写尤其别具一格。——约瑟夫·弗兰克，《伦敦图书评论》

内容详实，包含大量插图，阐释了作者对这个既野蛮又智慧，拥有高度艺术成就的文明的深刻洞见。这本书为我们展现了一个神秘与理性、“东方”与“欧洲”之间的俄罗斯。
——丽莎•雅丁，《观察家新闻报》

这是一部非常有趣，同时又让读者几乎能切身闻到“俄国泥土的气息”，这个不可能的任务被费吉斯教授完成了……他为我们讲述了俄国大地下的文化根源、它的荒谬和天才，它的人性与残酷。这是一个令人肃然起敬的成就。——乔弗里•古德曼，《论坛报》

对俄国文化史的全面描写，主题广博，观点宏大。
——安妮·阿普尔鲍姆，《标准晚报》年度图书

内容丰富，读来引人入胜……随处可见闪光的情节，以及犀利、动人，有时还带有几分诙谐的描写……是一部关于大国俄罗斯之性格的洞见之作。
——皮尔斯·布伦登，《老骨头》年度图书

绝妙地丰富……恢宏且深具说服力……一次愉悦无比的阅读体验。
——安东尼·比弗，美国作家

激动人心……这部优秀的史学著作的题目取自《战争与和平》，贵族女主角娜塔莎·罗斯托娃下意识地跳起了农民的披肩舞……一本令人相见恨晚的书。——《星期日独立报》

This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling "A People's Tragedy". The whole panorama of Russia's mighty culture is conjured up in a way that is fresh, intimate and immediate. Whether talking about music or novels, buildings or paintings, Figes' enthusiasm and literary brilliance sweeps the reader along through a series of great set-piece chapters.

Review
"Scintillating… an exceptional history of Russian culture and a joy to read."
--San Francisco Chronicle
 
"Stunning and ambitious… Figes captures nothing less than Russians' complex and protean notions regarding their national identity." --The Atlantic Monthly

"Staggering… A vivid, entertaining, and enlightening account of what it has meant to be culturally a Russian over the last three centuries." --Los Angeles Times

"[A] masterly work." --New York Review of Books

"A big, bold, interpretative cultural history." --Foreign Affairs
在托尔斯泰的名著《战争与和平》里，娜塔莎，这位自小接受法国教育的贵族小姐，爱唱歌、跳舞，不论苏格兰舞、英吉利茲舞，还是俄罗斯民间舞，她都能翩翩起舞，展现婀娜多姿、优雅动人的俄罗斯风情。奥兰多•费吉斯通过“娜塔莎之舞”，重新诠释《战争与和平》这部巨作，介绍托尔斯泰、普希金、陀思妥耶夫斯基、柴可夫斯基、契诃夫、斯特拉文斯基、肖斯塔科维奇等伟大的作家和艺术家，以散文般的优美笔触再现广袤质朴、包容一切的俄罗斯。

《娜塔莎之舞》通过对18世纪兴起的俄罗斯芭蕾、绘画、诗歌、戏剧和音乐等讨论，探索俄罗斯文化中欧洲文明与民间元素之间的分歧，“文明”和“本土”两个俄罗斯之间的对抗，以及贵族上流社会和底层农村民众间的分裂。书中更进一步讨论“俄罗斯灵魂”和“俄罗斯性”的建构与表现，揭示政治、国族认同、社会观念、风俗習惯、民间艺术、宗教等对俄罗斯文化的形成和发展所产生的影响，呈现出一幅充满戏剧性的细节、辉煌炫丽的文化长卷。
奥兰多•费吉斯（Orlando Figes），英国人，生于1959年，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现任英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。俄国生活的方方面面，不论是文学艺术，还是政治经济，他都烂熟于心，无人能出其右。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作如《耳语者：斯大林时代苏联的私人生活》、《人民的悲剧》、《克里米亚战争》等都取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的大师。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、NCR图书奖，并入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，已被翻译成二十多种文字出版。

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His last book, A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY (Cape 1996), won the NCR Book Award, the Wolfson History Prize, the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award and the WH Smith Literary Award. He lives in Cambridge.
1. European Russia
2. Children of 1812
3. Moscow! Moscow!
4. The Peasant Marriage
5. In Search of the Russian Soul
6. Descend Ants of Genghiz Khan
7. Russia Through the Soviet Lens
8. Russia Abroad
On a misty spring morning in 1703 a dozen Russian horsemen rode across the bleak and barren marshlands where the Neva river runs into the Baltic sea. They were looking for a site to build a fort against the Swedes, then at war with Russia, and the owners of these long- abandoned swamps. But the vision of the wide and bending river flowing to the sea was full of hope and promise to the Tsar of landlocked Russia, riding at the head of his scouting troops. As they approached the coast he dismounted from his horse. With his bayonet he cur two strips of peat and arranged them in a cross on the marshy ground. Then Peter said: ‘Here shall be a town.’
Few places could have been less suitable for the metropolis of Europe’s largest state. The network of small islands in the Neva’s boggy delta were overgrown with trees. Swept by thick mists from melting snow in spring and overblown by winds that often caused the rivers to rise above the land, it was not a place for human habitation, and even the few fishermen who ventured there in summer did not stay for long. Wolves and bears were its only residents. A thousand years ago the area was underneath the sea. There was a channel flowing from the Baltic sea to lake Ladoga, with islands where the Pulkovo and Pargolovo heights are found today. Even in the reign of Catherine the Great, during the late eighteenth century, Tsarskoe Selo, where she built her Summer Palace on the hills of Pulkovo, was still known by the locals as Sarskoe Selo. The name came from the Finnish word for an island, saari.
When Peter’s soldiers dug into the ground they found water a metre or so below. The northern island, where the land was slightly higher, was the only place to lay firm foundations. In four months of furious activity, in which at least half the workforce died, 20,000 conscripts built the Peter and Paul Fortress, digging out the land with their bare hands, dragging logs and stones or carting them by back, and carrying the earth in the folds of their clothes. The sheer scale and tempo of construction was astonishing. Within a few years the estuary became an energetic building site and, once Russia’s control of the coast had been secured with victories over Sweden in 1709-10, the city took on a new shape with every passing day. A quarter of a million serfs and soldiers from as far afield as the Caucasus and Siberia worked around the clock to clear forests, dig canals, lay down roads and erect palaces.