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From the History of Domestic Ethnography: Nina Ivanovna Gagen-Torn (1900–1986)

Type of publication: Survey

About author(s)

Elena V. Revunenkova | evrevu@gmail.com | Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera)

Keywords

nina ivanovna gagen-torn, ethnography, poetry, petrograd culture, gulag folklore, lev gumilev, tale of igor’s campaign, dmitry likhachev, russia, twentieth century, intellectuals, freedom, andrei belyi, stalin repressions

Abstract

The author shares her reminiscences about Nina Gagen-Torn – an ethnographer, poet, active participant in the cultural life of Petrograd, GULAG prisoner, resilient and free-thinking woman. The article draws on previously published materials supplemented with author’s own impressions of communication with Gagen-Torn. The author delineates an integral image of the talented woman – scholar and poet – against the backdrop of the tragic destiny of Russia and many representatives of its intellectual milieu in the 20 th century.

Citation

Revunenkova, E.V. 2012. From the History of Domestic Ethnography: Nina Ivanovna Gagen-Torn (1900–1986). Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6: 99-122

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